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Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureateIn a poetic gift from beyond the grave, Les Murray left a trove of last poems. These are poems he was working on up to his death, as well as work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, th ...Show more
New Selected Poems: Les Murray by Les Murray
$21.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Contains what Murray considers to be his most successfully realised poems, including many from "Subhuman Redneck Poems". Murray is a formidable essayist and both his poetry and prose have been noted for their celebration of a uniquely "vernacular" culture. His achievement is as much intellectual as imag ...Show more
On Bunyah by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
oMurray is a brash but also breathtakingly brilliant and often both at onceo -The AustralianBunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illuso ...Show more
Sub-Human Redneck Poems by Les Murray
$18.65 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 the language lives. In these darkly funny and deeply observant Subhuman Redneck Poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackene ...Show more
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Taller When Proneis Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The BiplaneHouses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray by Les Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.