In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Rich
A Collection of Les Murray's poetry that reveals the variety, intensity, and generosity of this great Australian poet's work.I starred last night, I shone:I was footwork and firework in one,a rocket t
In Waiting for the Past, Les Murray employs his molten sense of language to renew and transform our experience of the world. In quicksilver verse, he conjures his rural past, the life of the poor dair
In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" rul
Brief, that place in the yearwhen a blossoming pear treewith its sweet laundered scentreinhabits wooden roadsthat arch and diverge upinto electronic snow city. --"Brief, That Place in the Year" In P
“Les Murray has earned his reputation not only as one of Australia’s finest writers but as one of the most engaging poets writing in English today.” —Kate Kellaway, The Observer (London) Taller When P
In Waiting for the Past, Les Murray employs his molten sense of language to renew and transform our experience of the world. In quicksilver verse, he conjures his rural past, the life of the poor dair
Winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in EnglishJoseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." In these darkly funny and
Taller when Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since The Biplane Houses, published in 2007. These poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many
This is Les Murray’s first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection—named for a kind of house distinctive to Mur
A fresh selection of the finest poems-some previously uncollected-by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry? For the weird unemployment.For the painless headaches, that must be tappe
A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry? For the weird unemployment.For the painless headaches, that must be tappe
A collection of works by the poet Joseph Brodsky called "the one by whom the language lives" includes the best poems from Les Murray's collections The Ilex Tree, The Weatherboard Cathedral, Poems Agai
