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The Poet Les Murray

Overview   For an overview of Les Murray's work and significance from 1965-1994, please refer to that provided by The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature: Les Murray Overview A selection of Les Murray's poems short enough for comfortable on-sceen reading forms the heart of this site:  Showcase of Shorter Poems  Download Showcase (PDF) Les Murray News April 2010 saw the Australian publication of Taller When Prone, Les Murray's latest poetry volume (Black Inc.).
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This "volume of epitomes" features work by "four early English-language poets of Australia", reaching as far back to the middle of the nineteenth century.
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  Audio Recordings During a visit to Sweden in 2007 Les Murray recorded Translations from Nature.
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Poems from Hell and After Introduction to Hell and After In addition to the general introduction by Les Murray (above) the book contains biographical introductions to each of the four poets.
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Norwegian and Swedish translations of Fredy Neptune are also in the pipeline.
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The author has kindly given permission for three substantial extracts to appear on this site.
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A Brief Biography of Les Murray

The paddocks were endless again, and all around leaves lay beneath their trees, and cakes of moss.
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Perhaps the most impressive demonstration of his technical skill came in The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, in which he produced a verse novel consisting of 140 sonnets.
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Les Murray's own writing about his work is still the best criticism available on him.
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His other volumes of prose pieces, The Peasant Mandarin (1978) and Blocks and Tackles (1990), are also illuminating in this way.
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In 1957 Murray went to the University of Sydney to study modern languages.
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He is one of Australia's most influential literary critics and a prolific contributor of book reviews and literary articles to newspapers and journals, acted as poetry reader for the publisher Angus & Robertson, edited the magazine Poetry Australia, and was literary editor of the journal Quadrant.
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Les Murray- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More

About his work a reviewer for The Guardian wrote: "The great bulk of Murray's poetry [is] unlike anything else in the world of modern writing.
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Adopt a Poet | Add to Notebook | E-mail to Friend | Print Les Murray Leslie Allan Murray was born October 17, 1938, in Bunyah, New South Wales, Australia.
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He is also the author of two verse novels: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1992), and Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse (1999), which centers around the picaresque life of German-Australian sailor Friedrich Boettcher, a kind of Nordic hero who witnesses and records, in the demotic style, the foibles of his age.
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Les Murray - Poetry Archive

It was a hard background but one that instilled in him a love of the landscape and people of rural Australia which has informed his poetry ever since.
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His first published collection, The Ilex Tree, (co-published with Geoffrey Lehmann) appeared in 1965 and has been followed by a steady succession of books that have built Murray a formidable reputation as his country's unofficial national poet.
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What's not in dispute is the fecundity of his language: "We are a language species" he says ('Employment for the Castes in Abeyance') and he often writes in a rich torrent of words like a latter-day Elizabethan, delighting in puns, allusion, alliteration and learning.
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Murray is a well-known reader of his own work, his dry charm and understated style giving voice to the independent spirit of his poems.
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View all poetic forms Hear famous voices from poetry's past.
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Les Murray | LinkedIn

Les Murray | LinkedIn Join Today Sign In Les Murray Systems Engineer at SAS Institute Location Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area Industry Information Technology and Services Join LinkedIn and access Les Murray’s full profile.
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Sr. PM, Global Data Analytics, Biological R&D Syngenta Public Company; 10,001+ employees; SYT; Farming industry September 2009 – May 2011 (1 year 9 months) Business Intelligence PM Lenovo Public Company; 10,001+ employees; LNGVY; Computer Hardware industry May 2005 – April 2009 (4 years) - Managed and designed solutions for reporting and analysis to the Lenovo Services organization.
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Worked in Washington, DC on the IBM FAA account team.
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Poet: Les Murray - All poems of Les Murray

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Les murray author page - Duffy and Snellgrove

Becomes literary editor of Quadrant magazine 1991 Subject of ABC Documentary 1992 Translations from the Natural World 1995 Short-listed for T.S.
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He has been made AO and has an honorary D.Litt. from both the University of New England and the University of New South Wales.
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Les murray author page   Les Murray Conscious and Verbal Quality of Sprawl Poems the Size of Photographs Fredy Neptune Collected Poems A Working Forest       You'll need Realplayer to hear Les.
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      For reading notes on Les Murray's poetry click here     View some of Australia's other great poets – click here     Les Murray is Australia's leading poet.
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In August 2002 Duffy and Snellgrove published Collected Poems 1961-2002, and Learning Human: selected poems of Les Murray was published in June 2003.
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Les Murray Reading Notes - Duffy and Snellgrove

Roger McDonald’s excellent 1915 really had quite a lacklustre time with the reviewers when it came out; few praised it unequivocally.
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It was a firm training in self-sufficiency, and immunized me against any herd- animal leanings I might have developed.
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The next help I would need would come from colleagues.
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Indeed, I have only ever seen three or four of what must have been thousands of school essays on my work; one, by a boy at Pennant Hills High School in Sydney who had previously preferred the bush ballads to any modern verse, struck me as truly excellent.
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Students usually find it illuminating to be told the nodal points, the initial images, thoughts, etc., from which particular poems grow.
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Talking about my poem ‘The Burning Truck’, in which boys who have been hanging around the streets discontentedly go running after the apparently miraculous vehicle that burns but is not consumed and won’t stop, a lady who had been through the Blitz in England snorted decisively in one of my classes ‘Hmpf!
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Les Murray | LinkedIn

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Les Murray - United Kingdom | LinkedIn

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A life in writing: Les Murray | Books | The Guardian

A month before Les was born his father refused to cut down some trees which he said were full of white ants and were therefore worthless.
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Dad was given a farm, but my grandfather made sure he kept hold of the purse strings so he kept my parents poor.
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He has written a few what he calls "doctrinal" poems, which he distinguishes from "religious" poems "which are much stranger and weirder things.
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It's faded now, but for a long time I did have a pretty bad time with all that."He was out of step politically and artistically, and says the public rows were "an awful strain and probably contributed to my depression.
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He managed to buy some land back home in Bunyah.
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Les Murray | clivejames.com

Most of the poems in this short selection come from the 2002 edition of Collected Poems, but there are a couple from the most recent of his gratifyingly many slim volumes, The Biplane Houses.
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The proliferation of its inventiveness finally makes irrelevant the question of why he does not write in forms: everything he writes has a form of its own.
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He was bringing with him his memories of an upbringing in the farming country near Bunyah Creek, NSW, and his poetry was marked from the beginning with a deep and consciously revolutionary corrective to the metropolitan emphasis of Australian poetry which had prevailed since the bush balladeers had been found guilty of insufficient sophistication during the previous century.
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(He never relocated abroad, but he has always been a traveller, as well as a prodigious linguist.) Yet the base of his art has always remained firmly established in the hinterland, as if his sumptuously varied display of poetic produce were a kind of Royal Easter Show brought to the city for a long and imperishable season.
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In my capacity as literary editor of the student newspaper honi soit, it was my task to assess the printability of unsolicited poetic contributions, and I had no trouble assessing his as being verbally interesting beyond the ambitions of the average student — or of the remarkable student, for that matter — as well as being unusually well-founded in reality.
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Les Murray | Authors | Macmillan

Available In: Buy Fredy Neptune Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T.
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Available In: Buy Conscious and Verbal Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux A wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetry Everything widens with distance, in this perspective.
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Available In: Buy The Biplane Houses Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks This is Les Murray’s first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002.
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Available In: Buy Translations from the Natural World Les Murray Farrar, Straus and Giroux The centerpiece of this collection of poems is "Presence," a sequence of forty "translations from the natural world" about a variety of settings and their...
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Les Murray: Information from Answers.com

His main motive for this decision was to concentrate on his range of presentation duties as the 'face' of SBS Sport.
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It uses material from the Wikipedia article Les Murray (broadcaster).
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HEAT (magazine) Toyota World Sport Les Murray (poet) Verse novel The Brodie Press St.
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Murray was made a Member of the Order of Australia for services to association football on 12 June 2006 as part of the Queen's Birthday honours list.[5] In 2006, Murray stepped down from his position as SBS's Sports Director to become an editorial supervisor for SBS, while his on-air role remained the same.
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George Saints Football Club Grace Leven Prize for Poetry Richard Wherrett Mike Tomalaris C.
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Murray alleged that Neill had asked his coach, Pim Verbeek, to leave the room, before describing Verbeek's game-plan as "bullshit" and erasing what the Dutchman had written on a whiteboard, telling the team to play like they normally do.
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Les Murray - Poems, Biography, Quotes

Fresh-minted hills smoked, and the heavens swirled and blew away.
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The area is sparsely populated, hilly, and forested, and the beauty of this rural landscape forms a backdrop to many of Murray's best poems, such as 'Spring Hail':..
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Carcanet Press - Les Murray

Stead said of his poetry in the London Review of Books: 'It is wonderfully disciplined writing, offering what poetry and nothing else can offer, an art that arrests one's otherwise ever frustrated sense of the richness of the life that lives only for the moment'.In 1994 Murray was nominated for the Oxford Chair of Poetry and in June 1999 he was awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at Buckingham Palace, an honour was recommended by the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
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He studied at Sydney University and later worked as a translator at the Australian National University and as an officer in the Prime Minister's Department.
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Les Murray reads 'Bat's Ultrasound' (0:57 min) Les Murray reads 'Spermaceti' (1:53 mins) Les Murray reads 'The Octave of Elephants' (1:28 min) Share this...
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He was the first Australian poet to achieve international acclaim without expatriation.
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His verse novel Fredy Neptune appeared in 1998 and in 2004 won the Mondello Prize in Italy and a major German award at the Leipzig Book Fair.
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Les Murray and the Poetry of Depression - NYTimes.com

Depression is hardly the hidden illness it was some 20 years ago when William Styron wrote “Darkness Visible,” his now classic account, and a reader might well ask, Why add to the heap of stories?
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“Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression” is an unusual book.
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Two years later, approaching 50, he fell into a deep depression, occasioned, he believes, by the chance comment of an old high school tormenter who came to a local reading given by Murray and who “cheerfully recalled to me one of the nicknames she had bestowed on me 30-odd years previously.” (Murray had experienced a less severe depressive episode at the end of the 1950s.) Within days, his fingers started tingling painfully, and he later developed a sudden aversion to nicotine.
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However powerful some of the “Black Dog” poems are, there is a relief in turning from them to “Taller When Prone,” a collection of new poems.
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It also lifts the curtain on the stagecraft of poetry and offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour, elucidating just what the special abilities of poetry are.
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His thoughts were “shredded mental kelp marinaded in pure pain.” He spent whole mornings “raising the energy to walk to the next room for a book.” He cut back on writing prose and says that many of his poems during this time were “knotted” and “unclear.” He suffered regularly from “the 4 a.m.
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Les Is More: Les Murray | clivejames.com

The Australian word for ‘sidewalk’ is ‘footpath’.
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Perhaps they said ‘wale’ around the potato patches of northern New South Wales, but more probably Murray got it from the OED, where it turns out to mean ‘ridge’ and date from the Old English.
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Murray’s poetry, along with the poetry of many of his best contemporaries as well as all the worst, has renounced all vestiges of set forms.
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The example of America has not yet been sufficient to teach many Australian writers that such a problem has to be lived through.
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There is another good example in ‘The Power-line Incarnation’, a poem about how it feels to clear fallen power-lines off the roof of your house and find them to be still transmitting their full load of electricity.
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The British reader, for whom the usual word is most likely to be ‘pavement’, might also get the idea that the Australians use the same word as the Americans.
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