Soft addictions are an alluring, seductive aspect of our culture - they are easy to attain and socially acceptable, they are even encouraged in many cases. Yet they are lethal to the spirit.

For the last three decades of her life Judith Wright lived in the New South Wales town of Braidwood. Birds
In 2003 the National Library of Australia publiJudith Wrightd an expanded edition of Wright's collection titled Birds. C.

Judith Arundell Wright (31 May 1915 – 26 June 2000) was an Australian poet environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.