The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray
Title The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray PDF eBook
Author Les Murray
Publisher Black Inc.
Pages 95
Release 2012-10-24
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1921870788

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From his life’s work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this elegant hardback 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. ‘No poet has ever travelled like this, whether in reality or simply in the mind ... Seeing the shape or hearing the sound of one thing in another, he finds forms’ —Clive James ‘He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.’ —Joseph Brodsky ‘There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broadleafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate and conversational.’ —Derek Walcott ‘An unequivocal national treasure’ —Melbourne Review ‘An outstanding collection.’ —Canberra Times ‘This is Murray as he sees himself: the icon in the mirror, not on the stage.’ —Australian Les Murray lives in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. He has published some thirty books. His work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into several foreign languages.

Subhuman Redneck Poems

Subhuman Redneck Poems
Title Subhuman Redneck Poems PDF eBook
Author Les Murray
Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages 114
Release 2015-09-29
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1466894822

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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. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in all of us.

Translations from the Natural World

Translations from the Natural World
Title Translations from the Natural World PDF eBook
Author Les Murray
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 79
Release 1994-04
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0374278709

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Translations from the Natural World, Les Murray's new collection of poems, is, like all his work, rich in inventiveness, perception, and a rare delight in the mimetic powers of language. Its centerpiece is Presence, a sequence of forty "translations from the natural world" about a variety of natural settings and their amazing denizens. Lyre birds, honeycombs, sea lions, cuttlefish, and possums all act as spurs to Murray's protean talents for description and imitation. As Lachlan MacKinnon wrote in The Times Literary Supplement, "These poems, a grand tour of the given, are a great hymn to the particularities in which God's creative generosity is expressed, and they will be widely enjoyed and admired. Their technical and linguistic largesse confirms . . . that Les Murray is one of the very finest poets in whom the English language is now at work".

Killing the Black Dog

Killing the Black Dog
Title Killing the Black Dog PDF eBook
Author Les A. Murray
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 102
Release 2011-01-22
Genre Health & Fitness
ISBN 1459609077

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Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's courageous account of his struggle with depression, accompanied by poems specially selected by the author. Since the first edition appeared in 1997, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history. As Murray writes in this revise...

Les Murray Selected Poems

Les Murray Selected Poems
Title Les Murray Selected Poems PDF eBook
Author Les Murray
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 351
Release 2015-01-29
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1458798690

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Selected Poems is the latest, completely up - to - date collection of Les Murray's poetry. It comprises what Murray himself considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all his collections up to and including The Biplane Houses but not including his two verse novels. It is the first port of call for anyone wanting to experience the poetry of Les Murray, whether it be those who have always loved his work or those wanting an introduction to Australia's greatest poet. It is a distillation of Murray's best work and an ideal introduction.

Fredy Neptune

Fredy Neptune
Title Fredy Neptune PDF eBook
Author Les Murray
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 266
Release 1999-02-17
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0374158541

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A novel in verse on the adventures of a German-Australian sailor early this century, eg. "The first I heard that the War had really come / was a black-faced officer with a target and a church / on his cap, directing sailors to rip / our decks up, for the coal below. / I turned out of my hammock / to fight them--and our bos'un chucked me a shovel: / We're coaling that battlecruiser. / There! The English are after her!" By an Australian writer.

Continuous Creation

Continuous Creation
Title Continuous Creation PDF eBook
Author Les Murray
Publisher Black Inc.
Pages 71
Release 2022-03-01
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1743822219

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In 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, this is a wonderful final collection from Australia’s greatest poet – including a title poem that calls up the spirit of continuous creation, ‘out of all that vanishes and all that will outlast us’. Continuous Creation is the perfect gift for long-time fans of Murray and new readers alike.