But paradoxically her poems do not remain in the past, instead using landscape as a bridge to the present, offering support for conservation, a movement she embraced wholeheartedly in her lifetime. ... Her own strong relationship to this past is evident in the first person possessive pronoun of the title and the metaphor "part of my blood's country" but this also imitates an Aboriginal phrasing about the connection to land, suggesting an indigenous presence which is absent from the rest of the poem. ... From this scene of chaotic struggle, there is a yearning for "summ...

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