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books by Les Murray

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2 reviews
Les Murray

Carcanet Press, 2002

Murmurs from the Darkroom
Les Murray is an iconoclast poet. His style is very much his own and while his precedents are apparent in ee cummings, John Berryman, and even Gerard Manley Hopkins, his voice remains one of a singer on the plains of the Australian landscape. This collection of short poems forces him (by choice) into brevity and for him this is not an easy assignment. Each poem is indeed like a photograph of a ...

The Shiralee (Penguin Modern Classics)

7 reviews
D'Arcy Niland

Penguin Books Ltd, 2001

SHIRALEE REVIEW
I loved the book. My husband saw it on Masterpiece Theatre the same 10 years ago as other readers. I would like to know if the video is available to purchase or if it will air again soon. I've tried desparately in the past 5 years to locate the right people that might air it again-No luck. please help. Thanks

The vernacular republic: Selected poems

1 review
Les A Murray

Persea Books, 1982

The Australian Psyche in Surreal Poetic Form
The magic of this collection stretches far beyond that which is first visible: the simple laguage of poems such as "An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow" and "Spring Hail" work with Murray's typical contrast between short and long sentences to present the essence of the 'vernacular' he is exploring; the constant concern of the Australian spirit in the City and the Bush mingles with the literary form ...

Translations from the Natural World: Poems

1 review
Les Murray

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994

Poems that will bend your mind
The 40 "translations" in this collection integrate a complex set of ideas about consciousness, language, God, and our relationship to the earth, in poems of great linguistic and formal inventiveness. The poems demonstrate why Joseph Brodskey said of Murray that "he is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives" and Jonathan Bate calls him "the major ecological poet writing in the English ...

Fredy Neptune

7 reviews
Les A. Murray

Louis Braille Audio, 2000

the man with blank senses
This is an odd book; even down to its dimensions. It's taller than average...a good thing if you plan to travel with it. I dunno, some things just carry easier. As for the content, all I can say is it sometimes carries the same tune as Bukowski in his rare "sensitive" moments, when the ugly monster disappears and is replaced by something far more palatable. I bought the book at a bookstore ...

Subhuman Redneck Poems

1 review
Les Murray

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998

A must-have for anyone interested in modern poetry.
Les Murray is quite simply one of the finest poets of his generation. He combines the earthiness of a Seamus Heaney with the passion of a Dylan Thomas. Add a healthy dose of humour and a deep and compassionate understanding of the falibility of humankind and you're getting closer. "Subhuman Redneck Poems" is a book full of gems - I challenge anyone to read "Burning Want" or "The Last Hellos" ...

The Biplane Houses

1 review
Les Murray

Carcanet Press Ltd, 2006

"Human light is the building whose walls are inside."
Uninhibited by style or genre, Murray samples everything that life has to offer, what he sees and experiences, tossing out impressions that startle and attract, a facility of language and a love of place that is both extraordinary and compelling: "But tears underlie every country. Nowhere do they discharge the past, which is the live dark matter that flows undismissably with us, and impends ...