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Les Murray

Les Murray is the author of twelve books of poetry. Subhuman Redneck Poems (FSG, 1997) received the T. S. Eliot Prize, and in 1998 Queen Elizabeth presented him with the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He lives on a farm on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia.

Works

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The Biplane Houses
Poems

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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...
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Poems the Size of Photographs

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Brief, that place in the year when a blossoming pear tree with its sweet laundered scent reinhabits wooden roads that arch and diverge up into electronic...
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Conscious and Verbal
Poems

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A wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetry Everything widens with distance, in this perspective. The dog's paws, trotting, rotate his...
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Learning Human
Selected Poems

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A bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of work Les Murray is one of the great poets of the English language,...
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Fredy Neptune
A Novel In Verse

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A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize. I never learned the old top ropes, I...
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Subhuman Redneck Poems

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Winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English Joseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply, the one by whom...
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Translations from the Natural World
Poems

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The centerpiece of this collection of poems is "Presence," a sequence of forty "translations from the natural world" about a variety of settings and their...

Audio

Adam Zagajewski Reads 'The International Poetry Festival Thing'

Listen to Adam Zagajewski read Les Murray's 'The International Poetry Festival Thing' in 1996.

Duration: 03:49
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Bestseller

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Poems the Size of Photographs

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Brief, that place in the year when a blossoming pear tree with its sweet laundered scent reinhabits wooden roads that arch and diverge up into electronic...

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