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"South of My Days" (1945) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. [1] It was originally published in The Bulletin on 8 August 1945, [2] and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1] The poem depicts a landscape of desolation and isolation, both physical and emotional.
Wilbert Vere Awdry OBE (15 June 1911 – 21 March 1997), often credited as Rev. W. Awdry, was an English Anglican minister, railway enthusiast, and children's author.He is best remembered as the creator of Thomas the Tank Engine and several other characters who appeared in his Railway Series.
At the start of the 20th century, bicycle mechanics Wilbur and Orville Wright, begin tinkering with gliders on the windy sand dunes of Kitty Hawk. Three years and dozens of crashes later, the Wright brothers solve the technical problems that had stumped the best engineers in the world, and succeed in making the first successful powered flight.
On the same day as the published article, Orville Wright wrote in his diary, "We started assembly today", in reference to the first airplane that he and his brother, Wilbur, would fly shortly thereafter. [6] On December 8, 1903 Langley made a final attempt to fly his Aerodrome.
The line is one of the most highly regarded and widely debated lines in contemporary poetry, [2] [1] and has often been seen as having had cemented Wright's poetic legacy. [3] The line has been widely interpreted. In 2010, Dan Piepenbring , writer for The Paris Review, summarized a large amount of the attention directed towards the poem:
"Bullocky" (1944) is a poem by Australian poet Judith Wright. [1] It was originally published in The Bulletin on 27 September 1944, [2] and was subsequently reprinted in the author's single-author collections and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]
Wright was hired as the Johnson family's cook and housekeeper in 1942 and soon became an integral part of their household. She was able to forge a 30-year relationship with the Johnsons that ...
The Sunbird is a 1972 novel by Wilbur Smith about an archeological dig. The novel depicts a search for a Phoenician city in modern Botswana. [1] [2]The novel was a favourite of Smith's, who claimed it was heavily influenced by H. Rider Haggard. [3]