Join Prof John Morrissey for a discussion about his recent Fellowship research focused on the environmental writing of renowned Australian poet and author Judith Wright.

Prof John Morrissey is a 2025 National Library of Australia Fellow, supported by the Stokes family.

During his Fellowship, Prof John Morrissey explored Wright’s archives to uncover her writing on human life in a wider ecosystem and her inspiring efforts to communicate a pathway to a more ecologically responsible world.

In discussing Wright’s writing and activism, Prof Morrissey aims to show how she wrote brilliantly and presciently about how to be ‘true to the earth’ through ‘values beyond the economic’ and how her environmental vision can give vital direction and hope to contemporary environmental campaigns.