Les Murray

This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since 2002's Poems the Size of Photographs. In it, we find Murray at his near-miraculous best. The collection exhibits both Murray's unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style, and genre. There are story poems, word-plays, history, myth-makings, aphoristic fragments, and domestic portraits. The subjects...

A magnificent new hardback collection from one of Australia’s most celebrated poets, to be enjoyed by fans and newcomers alike. Les Murray’s new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex...

The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureate. 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 work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, this is a wonderful final collection from Australia's...

From his life's work, spanning more than four decades before his death in 2019, award-winning poet Les Murray selected these 100 poems to be remembered as his personal best. Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this collection is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers...

On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs. From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries, Les Murray evokes the life and landscape of his part of the country. 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...

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 matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape, and the people who have shaped it. There are travellers'...

Waiting for the Past, Les Murray's new volume of poems—his first in five years—continues his use of molten language. From "The Black Beaches" to "Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa," from "High Speed Trap Space" to "1960 Brought the Electric," this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled like this, whether in reality or...