Les Murray (poet)

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Leslie Allan Murray (born 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet and critic. He was born in Nabiac on the North Coast of New South Wales, and continues to live in the nearby town of Bunyah.

Murray attended primary and early high school in Nabiac, then attended Taree High School. In 1957 he commenced study at the University of Sydney, reading modern languages, and during this period became a professional translator. While at university he also became a Roman Catholic. He served in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve. In 1969 he took up writing full-time, after spending some time travelling and completing his degree course.

Murray has edited the magazine Poetry Australia, and currently serves as literary editor of Quadrant.

Contents

  • 1965: The Ilex Tree (with Geoffrey Lehmann), Canberra, ANU Press[1]
  • 1969: The Weatherboard Cathedral, Sydney, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1972: Poems Against Economics, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1974: Lunch and Counter Lunch, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1976: Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1977: Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1982: Equanimities
  • 1982: The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988[1]
  • 1983: The People's Otherworld, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1986: Selected Poems, Carcanet[1]
  • 1987: The Daylight Moon, Angus & Robertson, 1987; Carcanet 1988 and Persea Books, 1988[1]
  • 1994: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia[1]
  • 1989: The Idyll Wheel
  • 1990: Dog Fox Field Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993[1]
  • 1991: Collected Poems, Angus & Robertson, 1991; Carcanet, 1991; London, Minerva, 1992 and (released as The Rabbiter's Bounty, Collected Poems), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991[1]
  • 1992: Translations from the Natural World, Paddington: Isabella Press, 1992; Carcanet, 1993 and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994[1]
  • 1994: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia[1]
  • 1996: Late Summer Fires
  • 1996: Selected Poems, Carcanet
  • 1996: Subhuman Redneck Poems[1]
  • 1999: New Selected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove[1]
  • 1999: Conscious and Verbal, Carcanet, Duffy & Snellgrove[1]
  • 2000: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
  • 2000: Learning Human, Selected Poems, Farrar Straus Giroux; also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems, Carcanet, 2001[1]
  • 2002: Poems the Size of Photographs, Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet
  • 2002: New Collected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet, 2003
  • 2007: The Biplane Houses

  • 1986: Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry (editor), Melbourne, Collins Dove, 1986 (new edition, 1991)[1]
  • 1991: The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Melbourne,Oxford University Press, 1986 and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, 1999[1]
  • 1994: Fivefathers, Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era, Carcanet Press[1]
  • 2005: Hell and After, Four early English-language poets of Australia Carcanet[1]
  • 2005: Best Australian Poems 2004, Melbourne, Black Inc.[1]

  • 1979: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, Angus & Robertson, 1979, 1980 and Manchester, Carcanet, 1989[1]
  • 1999: Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse, Carcanet and Duffy & Snellgrove[1]

  • 1978: The Peasant Mandarin, St. Lucia, UQP[1]
  • 1984: Persistence in Folly: Selected Prose Writings, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1984: The Australian Year: The Chronicle of our Seasons and Celebrations, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1990: Blocks and Tackles, Angus & Robertson[1]
  • 1992: The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose, Carcanet; Minerva, 1993[1]
  • 1999: The Quality of Sprawl: Thoughts about Australia, Duffy & Snellgrove[1]
  • 2000: A Working Forest, essays, Duffy & Snellgrove[1]
  • 2002: The Full Dress, An Encounter with the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia[1]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah [1]Les Murray Web page at The Poetry Archive Web site, accessed October 15, 2007


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NAME Murray, Les
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION poet and critic
DATE OF BIRTH October, 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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