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Presentation by Professor John Morrissey at the International Geographical Congress 2024.  Judith Wright is one of Australia’s most beloved poets. Her poems evocatively engage questions of landscape and belonging, and reflect courageously on the double consciousness of White Australian identity and the legacies of colonial violence. Less known, however, is her environmental writing and activism, which she dedicated to in her later years as she became increasingly alert to the anthropogenic precarities of planet Earth. At the IGC, John is presenting work carried out at at the National Library of Australia, in which he draws upon a range of unseen documents to uncover Wright’s environmental envisioning of human life in a wider ecosystem. He will be exploring what is in effect an early critical political ecology in communicating a pathway to a more environmentally responsible world.