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Essay Published December 10, 2015

MATT FOLEY'S OPENING SPEECH FOR REMINISCENCE - A TRIBUTE TO JUDITH WRIGHT

I was born into a coloured country: spider-webs in dew on feathered grass, mountains blue as wrens, valleys cupping sky in like a cradle, Christmas-beetles winged with buzzing opal; finches, robins, gang-gangs, pardalots ............. Read more

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