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Barbara Blackman

With Love and Fury edited by Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney & Portrait of a Friendship edited by Bryony Cosgrove

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July–August 2007, no. 293
Lisa Gorton reviews 'With Love and Fury: Selected letters of Judith Wright' edited by Patricia Clarke and Meredith McKinney and 'Portrait of a Friendship: The letters of Barbara Blackman and Judith Wright' edited by Bryony Cosgrove

Judith Wright and Barbara Patterson met at a gathering of the Barjai group, a Brisbane salon for young poets and artists, when Judith was almost twice Barbara’s age. Judith had not yet published her first collection, The Moving Image (1946). She read some poems and Barbara was magnetised.

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