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New Selected PoemsLes Murray10% off eBook (EPUB)
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Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Australian, Bestsellers, Christianity
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847776068 £14.95 £13.45 Paperback (288 pages) (Pub. Apr 2012) 9781847771674 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
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 to appear in a collection.
Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today; endlessly inventive, his work celebrates the world and the power of the imagination. New Selected Poems is the poet’s choice of his essential works: an indispensable collection for readers who already love his poetry, and an ideal introduction for those new to it
The Burning Truck
Driving through Sawmill Towns An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow Working Men Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil Incorrigible Grace The Pure Food Act József Kiss of the Whip The Broad Bean Sermon The Mitchells The Powerline Incarnation Creeper Habit Employment for the Castes in Abeyance Driving to the Adelaide Festival 1976 via the Murray Valley Highway The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle The Gum Forest Rainwater Tank The Future Immigrant Voyage The Craze Field The Grassfire Stanzas Homage to the Launching-place First Essay on Interest The Fishermen at South Head View of Sydney, Australia, from Gladesville Road Bridge Quintets for Robert Morley Equanimity Shower Two Poems in Memory of My Mother, Miriam Murray née Arnall Weights Midsummer Ice Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman The Hypogeum Second Essay on Interest: the Emu A Retrospect of Humidity Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn The Chimes of Neverwhere The Smell of Coal Smoke Time Travel The Dark Flood Plains on the Coast Facing Asia The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever At the Aquatic Carnival The Sleepout Louvres Letters to the Winner The Milk Lorry The Butter Factory Roman Cage-cups The Lake Surnames Nocturne Lotus Dam Hearing Impairment At Thunderbolt’s Grave in Uralla Poetry and Religion May: When Bounty is Down to Persimmons and Lemons June: The Kitchens July: Midwinter Haircut August: Forty Acre Ethno September: Mercurial November: The Misery Cord December: Infant Among Cattle February: Feb The Transposition of Clermont Cave Divers Near Mount Gambier The Tin Wash Dish The Inverse Transports The Pole Barns Glaze Shale Country The International Terminal Granite Country Dog Fox Field Hastings River Cruise Words of the Glassblowers High Sugar On Removing Spiderweb The Assimilation of Background Accordion Music Ariel Politics and Art The Ballad of the Barbed Wire Ocean Midnight Lake Antarctia Blue Roan The Gaelic Long Tunes Wagtail Bats’ Ultrasound Eagle Pair Two Dogs Cockspur Bush Lyrebird Shoal Cattle Ancestor Mollusc The Snake’s Heat Organ Yard Horse The Octave of Elephants Pigs The Cows on Killing Day Shellback Tick Cell DNA Goose to Donkey Spermaceti Migratory Home Suite The Wedding at Berrico Crankshaft The Family Farmers’ Victory Dead Trees in the Dam Rock Music The Rollover Late Summer Fires Corniche Suspended Vessels The Water Column The Beneficiaries Wallis Lake Estuary On Home Beaches On the Present Slaughter of Feral Animals Memories of the Height-to-Weight Ratio It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen Performance Second Childhood is Legal Inside Ayers Rock Contested Landscape at Forsayth The Shield-Scales of Heraldry The Year of the Kiln Portraits Tympan Alley A Lego of Driving to Sydney Burning Want The Last Hellos Comete Cotton Flannelette The Warm Rain Demo Deaf Language The Head-Spider Dreambabwe Amanda’s Painting One Kneeling, One Looking Down The Margin of Difference A Reticence The Harleys Aurora Prone The Instrument Music to Me is Like Days A Deployment of Fashion To Me You’ll Always Be Spat The Disorderly A Postcard The Internationale Oasis City Towards 2000 You Find You Can Leave It All Small Flag Above the Slaughter Downhill on Borrowed Skis The Holy Show A Riddle Sound Bites In the Costume of Andalusia Autumn Cello The New Hieroglyphics The Annals of Sheer Ernest Hemingway and the Latest Quake The Images Alone Rooms of the Sketch-Garden The Tin Clothes Judged Worth Evacuating The Moon Man Succour Predawn in Health Touchdown The Cut-Out Visitor Clothing as Dwelling as Shouldered Boat Starry Night The Kettle’s Bubble-Making Floor Big Bang Worker Knowledge Jellyfish The Great Cuisine Cleaver Dance Sonnet Creole Exam Hoon Hoon A Countryman The End of Symbol Reclaim the Sites The Bellwether Brush In a Time of Cuisine Uplands The Pay for Fosterage A Study of the Nude Iguassu Pietà Once Attributed to Cosme Tura The Knockdown Question The Insiders Pop Music The Body in Physics Fruit Bat Colony by Day The Climax of Factory Farming The Poisons of Right and Left The Top Alcohol Contender Apsley Falls To One Outside the Culture Portrait of a Felspar-Coloured Cat At University The Young Fox Experience The Barcaldine Suite The Meaning of Existence The Aboriginal Cricketer The Aztec Revival The Averted Post Mortem The Hanging Gardens Leaf Brims The Statistics of Good Twelve Poems Travelling the British Roads Winter Winds The Tune on Your Mind A Dialect History of Australia For an Eightieth Birthday Melbourne Pavement Coffee Black Belt in Marital Arts The Welter A Levitation of Land Through the Lattice Door On the North Coast Line The Nostril Songs The Newcastle Rounds The House Left in English Yregami Upright Clear Across The Shining Slopes and Planes The Succession The Offshore Island The Hoaxist The Cool Green Death from Exposure Me and Je Reviens Pressure Church Pastoral Sketch The Mare out on the Road The Blueprint Blueprint II Norfolk Island Birthplace Lateral Dimensions Bright Lights on Earth Panic Attack Sunday on a Country River Ripe in the Arbours of the Nose Industrial Relations From a Tourist Journal Definitions The Conversations The Double Diamond As Country Was Slow Midi Observing the Mute Cat Nursing Home Fame Cattle-Hoof Hardpan Phone Canvass Science Fiction Brown Suits Southern Hemisphere Garden The Suspect Corpse Eucalypts in Exile Cherries from Young Croc High-speed Bird The Cowladder Stanzas The Farm Terraces Visiting Geneva The Bronze Bull Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose The Springfields Rugby Wheels A Frequent Flyer Proposes a Name Hesiod on Bushfire The Blame Daylight Cloth The Mirrorball Infinite Anthology Manuscript Roundel Natal Grass The Black Beaches Inspecting the Rivermouth High Rise Nuclear Family Bees When Two Per Cent Were Students I Wrote A Little Haiku West Coast Township Money and the Flying Horses Sun Taiko Child Logic Powder of Light Index of First Lines Index of Titles
Awards won by Les Murray
Short-listed, 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize (Waiting for the Past )
Long-listed, 1994 for the Oxford Chair of Poetry.
Winner, 1996 T.S. Eliot Prize for the best collection. (Subhuman Redneck Poems)
Winner, 1999 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.
Praise for Les Murray
'Les Murray's final gift to us, published exactly three years after his death, is certainly worth the wait.'
André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary Supplement 'The earth's physical landscape...is rendered with extraordinary, often strange, beauty.' New Yorker 'His poetry was never less than a rough-edged hymn of praise to the ceaseless and unstoppable wonders of Creation' Michael Glover, The Tablet 'The poems in this posthumous collection are, as so often in his work, intelligent, high-spirited, coolly or crudely argued, full of small delights, often with a strong dose of wrongheadedness... Murray was that rare thing, a poet who whatever his debts seemed an original.' William Logan, The New York Times 'Very occasionally you come across something on the page which makes you think ''you can't do any better than this.'' Perfection achieved.' BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review 'Waiting for the Past is a brilliant collection by a brilliant poet.' Anthony Domestico, Commonweal Magazine 'Les Murray's Taller When Prone shows a poetic master nimbly and lyrically at work. Now seventy-two, Murray writes with the bigness of soul of a person twice his age. This collection adds another chuckie to the cairn of a remarkable personal achievement. A Nobel Prize for that man, please.' Robert Crawford, TLS Books Of The Year 2010
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