Led by: Michael Griffith & Doug Amarfio
Focus: Judith Wright: Poet and Activist for First Nations People and the Environment, in the context of some poems by First Nations People around the globe.
This event is the Quaker Poetry Group face to face annual meeting. All are invited, not just poetry group members.
Participants are invited to contribute any poems by either Judith Wright or First Nations People that fit the themes of this meeting- see below (please send poems direct to Rosegriffith@bigpond.com).
Wright lived her last decades in the Queanbeyan–Palerang landscape (which includes Bungendore, Braidwood and Lake George). She was passionately committed to working on a Treaty for Aboriginals (with her partner Nugget Coombs) and she was deeply immersed in the native flora and fauna. Her deep friendship with Indigenous poet Oodgeroo Noonuccal gave focus to her twin passions. Other First Nations poets who could be included in this context: Joy Harjo, Layli Long Soldier, Jack Davis, Evelyn Araluen, Ali Cobby Eckermann. With Judith Wright these explore ecological stewardship, colonial impacts on land, and the deep spiritual ties between Indigenous peoples and the natural world.
Cost: $720 for a single room, $550 for a shared room