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    The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

    Les Murray

    A collection of poems from Australia’s leading poet.

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    Fivefathers

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    Features five key figures of Australian poetry - Kenneth Slessor, Roland Robinson, David Campbell, James McAuley and Francis Webb. Les Murray’s introductory essays to the poets evoke the writers’ circumstances…

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    Translations from the Natural World

    Les A. Murray

    Not only the migrating birds speak in Translations from the Natural World. Pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of…

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    Poems the Size of Photographs

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    Brief, that place in the year when a blossoming pear tree with its sweet laundered scent reinhabits wooden roads that arch and diverge up into electronic snow city. – Brief…

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    Learning Human: New Selected Poems

    Les A. Murray

    The poems in Learning Human represent the range of Murray’s development in narrative, lyric and satirical modes. All of his best- loved early poems are included, along with the remarkable…

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    The Daylight Moon and Other Poems

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    Les Murray

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    In this critical study of Les Murray’s work Steven Matthews provides a complete picture of his career to date, from its early parables of national emergence to the working man’s…

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    Les Murray: Selected Poems

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    This selection comprises what Les Murray considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all his collections up to and including Biplane Houses but not including his two verse novels.

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    Les Murray: Selected Poems

    Les Murray

    This selection comprises what Les Murray considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all his collections up to and including Biplane Houses but not including his two verse novels.

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    Les Murray Selected Poems

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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…

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    Continuous Creation: Last Poems by

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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…

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    On Bunyah

    Les Murray

    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…

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    The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

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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…

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    The Biplane Houses

    Les Murray

    The collection exhibits both Murray’s unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style and genre. The suite of works include, story poems, word-plays, history…

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    By the Balls: Memoir of a Football Tragic

    Les Murray

    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. Here Les tells of his…

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    Waiting for the Past

    Les Murray

    New collection from award-winning Australian poet.

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    Fredy Neptune

    Les Murray

    A verse-novel in five books which tells the life story of Fred Boettcher, a German-Australian sailor. The tale spans both World Wars, the Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression…

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    Continuous Creation

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    The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia’s unofficial poet laureate

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    Taller When Prone

    Les Murray

    Taller When Prone is Les Murray’s first volume of new poems since 2006’s The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a…

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    On Bunyah

    Les Murray

    On Bunyah’s poems and images (both full colour and black and white) depict Les Murray’s rural home town and its surrounding landscape as only he knows it. Chosen from Murray’s…

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    On Bunyah

    Les Murray

    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…

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    Subhuman Redneck Poems

    Les Murray

    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…

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    New Collected Poems

    Les Murray

    Born in 1938 in rural New South Wales, Les Murray is the one poet by whom the English language lives. Very little poetry in English is rooted in its sacredness…

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    Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse

    Les Murray

    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…

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    The Biplane Houses

    Les Murray

    The collection exhibits both Murray’s unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style and genre. The suite of works include, story poems, word-plays, history…

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    Waiting for the Past: Poems

    Les Murray

    A new collection from the preeminent Australian poet that demonstrates how we clamber up through shreds of history to exist in the momentary present –

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    Continuous Creation: Last Poems

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    The final collection of poems by the great Australian poet Les Murray –

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    Continuous Creation: Last Poems

    Les Murray

    This book is the last major offering from Australia’s greatest - and best-loved - poet, compiled in his final years at Bunyah and found after his death.

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    Collected Poems

    Les Murray

    Les Murray’s new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art.    

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    Learning Human: Selected Poems

    Les Murray

    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…

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    New Selected Poems

    Les Murray

    New Selected Poems contains Les Murray’s gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet…

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    The Tin Wash Dish

    Les Murray

    This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is Poetry and Conflict . 21 international poets from…

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    The Boys Who Stole the Funeral

    Les Murray

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    Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression

    Les Murray

    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…

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    Gobshite Quarterly #35/36, Double Trouble Winter/Spring 2020: Your Rosetta Stone For the New World Order

    Les Murray,Nastashia Minto,Matthew Robinson

    Completely multilingual parallel text quarterly magazine, published twice yearly as a flipbook, Winter/Spring, & Summer/Fall. Fiction, essays, memoir, poems, cartoons, reasoned rants. This issue’s languages incl. English, Spanish, Croatian, French…

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    The Enclosure of an Open Mystery: Sacrament and Incarnation in the Writings of Gerard Manley Hopkins, David Jones and Les Murray

    Stephen McInerney

    This book explores the influence of sacramental belief on the works of three Roman Catholic poets: nineteenth-century Jesuit priest Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh artist David Jones and Australian poet Les…

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    The Philosophy of Time

    Presents a set of readings which introduce the central topics in the philosophy of time. Two of the essays have been written specially for this volume. The editors summarize the…

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    The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

    Murray Bookchin

    The ideas about political organization that have animated the new radical movements worldwide

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    The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy

    Murray Bookchin

    The ideas about political organization that have animated the new radical movements worldwide

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    Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture

    The work of Pierre Bourdieu has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. This is a collection of essays focusing on…

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    Pierre Bourdieu: Fieldwork in Culture

    The work of Pierre Bourdieu has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. This is a collection of essays focusing on…

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