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Her memoir, That Oceanic Feeling, won the 2004 Nita B Kibble Award for Life Writing. She lives in Melbourne with her partner and son.  \nFIONA CAPP  \nMy Blood’s Country  \nWith kind acknowledgment to HarperCollins Publishers Australia and  \nETT Imprint for permission to reproduce lines from Judith Wright’s poetry First published in 2010  \nCopyright © Fiona Capp 2010  \nAll rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publisher. The Australian Copyright Act 1968 (the Act) allows a maximum of one chapter or 10 per cent of this book, whichever is the greater, to be photocopied by any educational institution for its educational purposes provided that the educational institution (or body that administers it) has given a remuneration notice to Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) under the Act.  \nAllen & Unwin  \n83 Alexander Street Crows Nest NSW 2065 Australia  \nPhone: (61 2) 8425 0100  \nFax: (61 2) 9906 2218  \nEmail: [info@allenandunwin.com](info@allenandunwin.com)  \nWeb: [www.allenandunwin.com](www.allenandunwin.com)  \nCataloguing-in-Publication details are available from the National Library of Australia  \n[www.librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au](www.librariesaustralia.nla.gov.au)  \nISBN 978 1 74175 487 2  \nSet in 12/17 pt Dante by Bookhouse, Sydney Printed by McPherson’s Printing Group  \n10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1  \nTo Meredith McKinney, Pip Bundred and Caroline Mitchell  \nContents  \nForeword  \nIntroduction  \nNEW ENGLAND  \nOne Train Journey  \nTwo Jeogla  \nThree Council Rock  \nFour The Lost Garden  \nFive Generations of Women  \nSix Nigger ’s Leap  \nSeven Dreamscape  \nQUEENSLAND  \nEight The Landscape of Love  \nNine My Red Mountain  \n Ten In the Dark Wood  \nEleven Beyond the Burning Wind  \nTwelve Eye of the Earth  \nThirteen Landscape of Grief  \nCANBERRA & MONGARLOWE  \nFourteen Opera City  \nFifteen The World’s Last Edge  \nSixteen Phantom Dwelling  \nSeventeen Years of Love and Work  \nEndnotes  \nSelect Bibliography Acknowledgments  \nSouth of my days’ circle, part of my blood’s country, rises that tableland, high delicate outline of bony slopes wincing under the winter, low trees blue-leaved and olive, out-cropping granite—clean, lean, hungry country . . .  \n. . . South of my days’ circle I know it dark against the stars, the  \nhigh lean country full of old stories that still go walking in my sleep.  \nJudith Wright,‘South of My Days’  \nFOREWORD  \nSometimes in life you get lucky. Someone of rare vision and remarkable gifts crosses your path and, in ways that may be apparent only to yourself, they touch your life and change its course. I was seventeen when I first met Judith Wright. Everything that followed from this encounter led me, thirty years later, to the places she loved and dwelt in; the landscapes that made her the singular poet and environmental visionary she became. It was a journey I had been waiting to take ever since I first discovered her poetry asa teenager; a journey not only to actual places but into a psychological and imaginative terrain as real as anything recorded on a map.  \nAs I travelled from New England (in northern New South Wales), where Judith grew up, to Queensland where she lived with her husband, Jack McKinney, and daughter Meredith, and then to her property near Mongarlowe 100 kilometres east of Canberra, where she spent her final decades with her lover, Nugget Coombs, what had once been abstract to me took on solid form. We are all shaped by the places in which we live, as much as our relationships. The smells, the textures, the moods, the contours of these places are part ofus in ways Judith understood with exquisite urgency. 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