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Wright was born in Armidale , northern NSW, in the so-called New England region, but spent much of her formative years in Brisbane and Sydney. Her work is noted for a characteristic "Australian-ness", which began to gain prominence in Australian art in the years following World War II . She dealt with the relationship between settlers, Aboriginal Australians and the bush, as well as feminism, amongst other themes. She was also a strong advocate for the rights of Aboriginal Gay Australians. She had a rich, powerfully evocative style; one of her finest poems, the Metho Drinker, well illustrates this. :The Metho Drinker :Under the death of winter's leaves he lies :who cried to Nothing and the terrible night :to be his home and bread. "O take from me :the weight and waterfall of ceaseless Time :that batters down my weakness; the knives of light :whose thrust I cannot turn; the cruelty :of human eyes that dare not touch or pity." :Under the worn leaves of the winter city :safe in the house of Nothing now he lies. :His white and burning girl, his woman of fire :creeps to his heart and sets a candle there :to melt away the flesh that hides the bone, :to eat the nerve that tethers him in Time. :He will lie warm until the bone is bare :and on a dead dark moon he wakes alone. :It was for Death he took her; death is but this :and yet he is uneasy under her kiss :and winces from that last acid of her desire. EXTERNAL LINKS
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