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The collection exhibits both Murray's unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style and genre. The suite of works include, story poems, word-plays, history to myth-making and more. The subjects range from Asperger's Syndrome to Germaine Greer to Japanese sword blades.
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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 of these poems range from Asperger's Syndrome to Germaine Greer to Japanese sword blades. As ever, Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity.
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ISBN: 9781863952149
Publisher: Black Inc.
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 April 2006
Country: Australia
Imprint: Black Inc.
Audience: General / adult
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Spine width: 8.0mm
Width: 137.0mm
Height: 208.0mm
Weight: 118g
Pages: 96
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About the Author
Les Murray is Australia's leading poet. He lives in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. He has published some thirty books. His work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into about half a dozen foreign languages. In 1996 he was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, in 1998 the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, and in 2004 the Mondello Prize. His most recent collection, The Biplane Houses, was published by Black Inc. in April 2006.
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