The Other Half : Poems

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LanguageEnglish
Publication date
1966
The Other Half : Poems
AuthorJudith Wright
LanguageEnglish
PublisherAngus and Robertson
Publication date
1966
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages51p
Preceded bySelected Poems 
Followed byThe Nature of Love 

The Other Half : Poems (1966) is the ninth collection of poetry by Australian poet Judith Wright.[1]

The collection consists of 38 poems, some with their original publication in this book, and some of which were had been previously published in magazines such as The Australian, The London Magazine, The Bulletin, The Times Literary Supplement, and various Australian poetry collections.[2]

  • "The Other Half"
  • "To Hafiz of Shiraz"
  • "The Curtain"
  • "Metamorphosis"
  • "Destruction"
  • "Imago"
  • "To Another Housewife"
  • "The Encounter"
  • "Against the Wall"
  • "Power"
  • "City Sunrise"
  • "Pro and Con"
  • "Wishes"
  • "For Jack Blight"
  • "Beside the Creek"
  • "The Real Dream"
  • "The Trap"
  • "Homecoming"
  • "Prayer"
  • "Sculpture"
  • "Cleaning Day"
  • "Clock and Heart"
  • "To a Mare"
  • "Eve to Her Daughters"
  • "Remembering an Aunt"
  • "For John Shaw Neilson"
  • "The Young Wife"
  • "Typists in the Phoenix Building"
  • "Child with a Dead Animal"
  • "Naked Girl and Mirror"
  • "Water"
  • "The Beanstalk, Meditated Later"
  • "A Document"
  • "Camping at Split Rock"
  • "Snakeskin on a Gate"
  • "New Guinea Legend: The Finding of the Moon"
  • "Portrait"
  • "Turning Fifty"

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