Niggers Leap- Judith Wright

Question 1

Judith Wright was the first ____________ poet to _______ name and explore the experiences of its Indigenous people in her poem ‘Nigger’s Leap’, published in her first collection The Moving ______ (1946). ‘Like other great political poets, like Dante, like Anna Akhmatova, Wright’s poetry tells, and tells _______, stories and ______ that only poetry can really tell so they sear into the soul and can never be untold

Answer 1

“Judith Wright was the first white Australian poet to publicly name and explore the experiences of its Indigenous people in her poem ‘Nigger’s Leap’, published in her first collection The Moving Image (1946). ‘Like other great political poets, like Dante, like Anna Akhmatova, Wright’s poetry tells, and tells lucidly, stories and truths that only poetry can really tell so they sear into the soul and can never be untold’.