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Collected Poems by Les Murray
$49.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Displays the full range of Les Murray's poetic art. This volume includes all the poems he wants to preserve from his first book Ilex Tree to Poems the Size of Photographs, from 1965 to 2002.
Collected Poems: Murray 1961-2002 by Les Murray
$59.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
The first volume of Murray's Collected Poems to be published in Australia for many years. It includes all the poetry he wants to preserve, apart from his verse novel Fredy Neptune, from 1961-2002. A 75 minute CD of Les Murray reading his best poems is also included.
Fredy Neptune by Les Murray
$29.95 NZD
Category: History
Fredy Neptune is a verse novel and is a major work that Murray wrote over five years. A vernacular epic, it involves the journeys of a man born on the north coast of New South Wales, a gentle, curious man of enormous physical strength who loses his ability to feel. His travels take him around the world, ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog by Les Murray
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 followed, the "Black Dog" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
$11.99 NZD
Category: Essays & Anthologies | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
New Selected Poems: Les Murray by Les Murray
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Contains what Murray considers to be his most successfully realised poems, including many from "Subhuman Redneck Poems". Murray is a formidable essayist and both his poetry and prose have been noted for their celebration of a uniquely "vernacular" culture. His achievement is as much intellectual as imag ...Show more
Selected Poems by Les A. Murray (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
This is the first port of call for anyone wanting to experience the poetry of Les Murray. Completely up to date, it contains Murray's finest work (excluding Fredy Neptune), selected by the poet himself. This beautifully designed edition is also the perfect gift for someone wanting an introduction to Aus ...Show more
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
$29.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Taller When Proneis Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The BiplaneHouses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape ...Show more
The Biplane Houses by Les A. Murray
$29.95 NZD
Category: Poetry
Les Murray' s first new book since "Poems the Size of Photographs "(2002) finds him at his near-miraculous best. Where that book and the book-length poem "Fredy Neptune "(1999) were animated by Murray' s choice of a single mode of approach (the short poem, the modern epic), this one calls on his ability ...Show more
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