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Author : Ulla Fürstenberg
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783823360100
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)
Download or read book "Les Murray Country" written by Ulla Fürstenberg and published by Gunter Narr Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784105201
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)
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
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374605645
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
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.”
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894822
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
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 114 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.
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894806
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
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 266 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.
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870788
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (218 download)
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.
Author : Les A. Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863952144
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)
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.
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429991461
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
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 97 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.
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Carcanet
ISBN 13 : 1784101176
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)
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.
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781760640965
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
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.
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894776
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Conscious and Verbal written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 116 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.
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894814
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Learning Human written by Les Murray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, past, present, and future. Learning Human contains the poems he considers his best: 137 poems written since 1965, presented here in roughly chronological order, and including a dozen poems published for the first time in this book. Murray has distinguished between what he calls the "Narrowspeak" of ordinary affairs, of money and social position, of interest and calculation, and the "Wholespeak" of life in its fullness, of real religion, and of poetry. Poetry, he proposes, is the most human of activities, partaking of reason, the dream, and the dance all at once -- "the whole simultaneous gamut of reasoning, envisioning, feeling, and vibrating we go through when we are really taken up with some matter, and out of which we may act on it. We are not just thinking about whatever it may be, but savouring it and experiencing it and wrestling with it in the ghostly sympathy of our muscles. We are alive at full stretch towards it." He explains: "Poetry models the fullness of life, and also gives its objects presence. Like prayer, it pulls all the motions of our life and being into a concentrated true attentiveness to which God might speak." The poems gathered here give us a poet who is altogether alive and at full stretch toward experience. Learning Human, an ideal introduction to Les Murray's poetry, suggests the variety, the intensity, and the generosity of this great poet's work so far.
Author : Jane Gleeson-White
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
ISBN 13 : 1741763177
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Australian Classics written by Jane Gleeson-White and published by Allen & Unwin. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reintroduces 50 classics of Australian literature - including novels, non-fiction, children's literature and poetry - from the last 200 years.
Author : Steven Matthews
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719054488
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (544 download)
Download or read book Les Murray written by Steven Matthews and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the only full critical study of Les Murray's work, Steven Matthews provides a complete account of the poet's career to date. A controversial figure, Murray's version of Australian republicanism has caused heated argument about the future direction of his country as it moves away from its colonial past. With detailed readings of major poems, and literary and cultural contexts surrounding the work, Matthews gives an overview of Murray's place in Australian literature and national thought.
Author : Les A. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Ilex Tree written by Les A. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Random House Australia
ISBN 13 : 174051355X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (45 download)
Download or read book By the Balls written by Les Murray and published by Random House Australia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FOREWORD BY SEPP BLATTER Football veteran Les Murray is the face and voice of soccer broadcasting in Australia and is one of our nation's most influential people in sport. In this tell-all memoir Les tells of his humble origins as a migrant to Australia, through his struggles with life in a country that did not embrace the beautiful game, and details his rise to top of football media and commentary, at the same time documenting soccer's rise in popularity within the Australian sporting culture. Fleeing a crumbling Stalinist Hungary with his family in 1956 was shocking for Les as a young boy, discovering that Australia was a veritable football desert was even worse. From Budapest to Port Kembla is a huge cultural leap in anyone's language but Laszlo Urge had a single-minded passion for the game and made it count by choosing it as a faith. Following moderate success as a semi-pro player, Les then dabbled in rock and roll but then went on to become one of the game's most respected journalists, commentators and broadcasters. Well known beyond SBS as presenter and producer of SBS soccer programs, he has been directly involved in all major events covered by SBS Sport, including the World Cup Soccer tournaments. It was Les Murray who coined the term 'the World Game', and who, with Johnny Warren, made it his mission to make football in this country count. BY THE BALLS is the story of Les's life and love - football - and details his personal relationship with it as a self-confessed soccer tragic.
Author : Laurie Hergenhan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780702232916
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (329 download)
Download or read book The Poetry of Les Murray written by Laurie Hergenhan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les Murray is acknowledged as Australia's leading poet; the one with the most substantial world recognition. Yet the criticism on his work has until now been commensurate with this reputation, both in bulk and quality. This ground-breaking collection of essays ranges across Murray's considerable output, examining its lyrical qualities and its remarkable linguistic inventiveness; its landscapes and 'soundscapes'; its biographical qualities; its underlying poetics and world view, from the mid length poems to the culminating verse, Fredy Neptune. Impressive in their depth as well as their coverage, these original essays reveal the riches of the poetry. Contributors include outstanding Murray scholars, new and well known, from overseas as well as Australia. Those interested in Australian and world poetry - teachers, students, general readers and historians - will find this volume an indispensable companion.
