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Spirited away: Judith Wright inspires the poets of Tamborine. Review of ‘Ten Poems of Tamborine Mountain’ by Lisa Woolford, In review, July 2024
It’s no surprise that one of the most interesting poetry movements in Australia happens to be based at Tamborine Mountain in Queensland’s Scenic Rim region.
This mountain was, after all, once home to the revered poet Judith Wright. We’ve studied her at school, her environmental activism still inspires a generation and in Brisbane we remembered her by naming an arts centre after her – The Judith Wright Arts Centre in Fortitude Valley.
The centre was championed by a former arts minister, Matt Foley, a poet himself and a champion of poetry who was fondly regarded as “the minister for poetry”.
Judith Wright’s spirit presides over the Calanthe Collective and Calanthe Press, based on Tamborine Mountain or Mount Tamborine as it is also referred to.
Although, is it a mountain? Calanthe Press’s latest publication, a gorgeous little book called Ten Poems of Tamborine Mountain, begs to differ. In her introduction to this gorgeous slim volume Janis Bailey gives us a geographical profile of this South East Queensland beauty spot . . .
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