Canberra: National Library of Australia, 2003. Octavo, colour illustrations, softcover.

The poems in Judith Wright's Birds volume have long been among the best loved poems written in Australia. Many people have grown up with the beguiling rhythms of 'Black Cockatoos', or the jauntiness of 'The Wagtail'. Now in this new edition, commemorating 25 years since the poems were last published as a single collection, these works appear with full-colour illustrations' and a personal introduction by the poet's - daughter Meredith McKinney, for whom many of the poems were written. As a fitting celebration of Judith Wright (1915-2000) as both writer and passionate environmentalist, and to more fully reveal the centrality of birds in the poet's imagination, this new edition also contains six additional bird poems drawn from across her work.
The beautiful illustrations accompanying the poems, taken from the National Library's pictures Collection, sample many of Australia's most renowned nature painters-ranging from
Anna Maria Lewin, E.E. Gostelow and Neville Cayley, through to Lionel Lindsay and Lilian Medland, and on to more recent artists, William T Cooper and Betty Temple Watts.