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Collected Poems by Les Murray
$45.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
Displays the full range of Les Murray's poetic art. This volume includes all the poems he wants to preserve from his first book Ilex Tree to Poems the Size of Photographs, from 1965 to 2002.
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
Conscious and Verbal by Les Murray
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
Conscious and Verbal is Les Murray's first collection of new poems since the TS Eliot award winning Subhuman Redneck Poems. The title of this volume is derived from a press release following Murray's sudden illness and three week coma in 1996. A medical announcement from the John Hunter Hospital anno ...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
Fredy Neptune by Les A. Murray
$32.00 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 slowas farming- but to say Why this is Valparaiso ...Show more
Fredy Neptune by Murray Les
$19.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
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 ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog by Les Murray
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
$6.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...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
On Bunyah by Les Murray
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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