The Best 100 Poems Of Les Murray

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1921870788
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( 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.

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant
ISBN 13 : 9781459661820
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( 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

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781760640965
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( 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.

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Carcanet
ISBN 13 : 1784101176
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( 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.

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374605645
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( 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.”

Author : Les A. Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863952144
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( 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.

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1784105201
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( 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

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466894822
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( 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.

Author : Les A. Murray
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374528608
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( 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.

Author : Les Murray
Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1743822219
Total Pages : 71 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( 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.