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The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870788
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray written by Les Murray and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-24 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray (Large Print 16pt)

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459661820
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray (Large Print 16pt) written by Les Murray and published by ReadHowYouWant. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 collection is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. It is a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia. '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

Collected Poems

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781760640965
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Collected Poems written by Les Murray and published by Black Incorporated. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 artistic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery.

Waiting for the Past

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Carcanet
ISBN 13 : 1784101176
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Past written by Les Murray and published by Carcanet. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clearly-focussed lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them - wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by sterilising chlorine. With the erasures the modern world brings, words, landscapes and lives descend to the Esperanto of the modern. The poet, with a salutary resistance, rejects the computer and the incursions of the levelling Modern in favour of old-fashioned typewriters, unlikely saints, lived-in places, an Easter rabbit edible and risen, farming in the spirit of ancestors. This is the past he waits for in scenes unmade by human carelessness, not only in his rural place but across the world. The poems speak of the near-unspeakable, of old age, vertigo, illness, and the durable resilience of married love.

Continuous Creation

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374605645
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Continuous Creation written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-04-26 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final collection of poems by the great Australian poet Les Murray, Continuous Creation We bring nothing into this world except our gradual ability to create it, out of all that vanishes and all that will outlast us. In Continuous Creation, the final collection from Les Murray, the preeminent poet of modern Australia recalls moments from his youth and wryly observes the changing world, moving back and forth through time and history with characteristic curiosity and an ever-fresh commitment to capturing the rhythms of life in verse. This collection displays Murray’s miraculous ability to reinvent language in order to plant his and our reality on the page, whether he writes about the Australian landscape (“Kangaroo sleeping / ahead on the road turns out / to be twigs and leaves”) or unsold books sitting in department stores. Continuous Creation demonstrates, once more, that Murray was one of the great poets of the English language. As Joseph Brodsky said, he was, “quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.”

The Biplane Houses

Author : Les A. Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863952144
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book The Biplane Houses written by Les A. Murray and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since 2002's Poems the Size of Photographs. In it we find Murray at his near-miraculous best. The collection exhibits both Murray's unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style and genre- there are story poems, word-plays, history - and myth-makings, aphoristic fragments and domestic portraits. The subjects of these poems range from Asperger's Syndrome to Germaine Greer to Japanese sword blades. As ever, Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity.

New Selected Poems

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374713731
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book New Selected Poems written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poets Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment. For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment. For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verb before the trance leaves you. For working always beyond your own intelligence. —from "The Instrument" New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's own gathering from the full range of his poetry—from the 1960s through Taller When Prone (2004) and including previously uncollected work. One of the finest poets writing today, Murray reinvents himself with each new collection. Whether writing about the indignities of childhood or the depths of depression, or evoking the rhythms of the natural world; whether writing in a sharply rendered Australian vernacular or a perfectly pitched King's English, his versatility and vitality are a constant. New Selected Poems is the poet's choice of his essential works: an indispensable collection for readers who already love his poetry, and an ideal introduction for those who are new to it.

On Bunyah

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784105201
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book On Bunyah written by Les Murray and published by Carcanet Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bunyah 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 illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws.' This updated edition of On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs. From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries, Les Murray evokes the life and landscape of his part of the country. // 'Murray is one of the very few poets with whose best work you feel that having read it you won't, can't be quite the same again.' London Review of Books

Subhuman Redneck Poems

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894822
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Subhuman Redneck Poems written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Conscious and Verbal

Author : Les A. Murray
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528608
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Conscious and Verbal written by Les A. Murray and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetry Everything widens with distance, in this perspective. The dog's paws, trotting, rotate his end of infinity and dam water feels a shiver few willow drapes share. Bright leaks through their wigwam re-purple the skinny beans then rapidly the light tops treetops and is shortened into a day. Everywhere stands pat beside its shadow for the great bald radiance never seen in dreams. -from Aurora Prone In July 1996, the Australian press reported that after three weeks in a coma, the country's greatest poet, Les Murray, was again conscious and verbal. Shortly thereafter, Murray resumed his work in words, and over the next four years he wrote these sixty-five poems, which, in their different ways, literally or sensually, replay that dreamy announcement of the perpetually waking world. Conscious and Verbal is one of the legendary poet's richest, fullest, and most imaginative books to date.

Continuous Creation

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822219
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Continuous Creation written by Les Murray and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Killing the Black Dog

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429991461
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Killing the Black Dog written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, "you feel beneath help." Killing the Black Dog is Murray's recollection of those awful days: brief, pointed, wise, and full of beauty in the way of his poetry. The prose text—delicately balanced between personal and informative—gives a glimpse of the imprint that depression can leave on a life. The accompanying poems show their roots in his crisis—a crisis from which, he reports toward the close of this poignant book, he has fully recovered. "My thinking is no longer jammed and sooty with resentment," he recalls. "I no longer wear only stretch-knit clothes and drawstring pants. I no longer come down with bouts of weeping or reasonless exhaustion. And I no longer seek rejection in a belief that only bitterly conceded praise is reliable." Killing the Black Dog is a crucial chapter in the life of an outstanding poet.

Fredy Neptune

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894806
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Fredy Neptune written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 was always in steam. Less capstan, less climbing, more re-stowing cargo. Which could be hard and slow as farming- but to say Why this is Valparaiso! Or: I'm in Singapore and know my way about takes a long time to get stale .-from Book I, "The Middle Sea" When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age.Told in a blue-collar English that regains freshness by eschewing the mind-set of literary language, Fredy's picaresque life-as, perhaps, the only Nordic Superman ever-is deep-dyed in layers of irony and attains a mind-inverting resolution.

Waiting for the Past

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714738
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Past written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of poems from Les Murray that renews and transforms the contemporary world through language In Waiting for the Past, Les Murray employs his molten sense of language to renew and transform our experience of the world. With quicksilver verse, he conjures his rural past, the life of the poor dairy boy in Australia, as he simultaneously feels the steady tug of aging, of time pulling him back to the present. Here, syntax, sense, and sound combine with such acrobatic grace that his poems render the familiar into the unknown, the unknown into the revelatory. Whether Murray is writing about a boy on a walkabout hiding from grief, a sounding whale “spilling salt rain,” or leaves that “tread on the sky,” the great Australian poet’s sense of wonder, his ear for the everyday, his swiftness of thought, are everywhere in these pages. As Derek Walcott said of Murray’s work, “There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational.”

Selected Poems

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921866705
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems written by Les Murray and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The FSG Poetry Anthology

Author : Jonathan Galassi
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374722617
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The FSG Poetry Anthology written by Jonathan Galassi and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To honor FSG's 75th anniversary, here is a unique anthology celebrating the riches and variety of its poetry list—past, present, and future Poetry has been at the heart of Farrar, Straus and Giroux's identity ever since Robert Giroux joined the fledgling company in the mid-1950s, soon bringing T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, and Elizabeth Bishop onto the list. These extraordinary poets and their successors have been essential in helping define FSG as a publishing house with a unique place in American letters. The FSG Poetry Anthology includes work by almost all of the more than one hundred twenty-five poets whom FSG has published in its seventy-five-year history. Giroux's first generation was augmented by a group of international figures (and Nobel laureates), including Pablo Neruda, Nelly Sachs, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Joseph Brodsky. Over time the list expanded to includes poets as diverse as Yehuda Amichai, John Ashbery, Frank Bidart, Louise Glück, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, Yusef Komunyakaa, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Paul Muldoon, Les Murray, Grace Paley, Carl Phillips, Gjertrud Schnackenberg, James Schuyler, C. K. Williams, Charles Wright, James Wright, and Adam Zagajewski. Today, Henri Cole, francine j. harris, Ishion Hutchinson, Maureen N. McLane, Ange Mlinko, Valzhyna Mort, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Frederick Seidel are among the poets who are continuing FSG's tradition as a discoverer and promoter of the most vital and distinguished contemporary voices. This anthology is a wide-ranging showcase of some of the best poems published in America over the past three generations. It is also a sounding of poetry's present and future.

Poetry for the Earth

Author : Sara Dunn
Publisher : Fawcett
ISBN 13 : 0449905993
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Poetry for the Earth written by Sara Dunn and published by Fawcett. This book was released on 1992 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the state of the environment is a very current issue, passion and concern for the world around us is nearly as old as the world itself. Poetry for the Earth brings together a cross-section of some of the most beautiful and haunting poetry ever written in tribute to--or in mourning for--our magnificent landscapes.