The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

By: Les Murray

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Paperback | 29 October 2019

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From his life’s work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best.

Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this elegant hardback is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work.

This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.

About the Author

Les Murray (1938 - 2019) lived in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. The author of some thirty books, his work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into several foreign languages. In 1996 he was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, in 1998 he won the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2004 he was awarded the Mondello Prize. His most recent collections include The Biplane Houses, Fredy Neptune, Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Killing the Black Dog and Taller When Prone.

Industry Reviews

‘This is Murray as he sees himself: the icon in the mirror, not on the stage.’
Australian

‘[Murray’s] language crackles like bushfire.’
Melbourne Review

‘An outstanding collection.’
Canberra Times

‘No poet has ever travelled like this, whether in reality or simply in the mind … Seeing the shape or hearing the sound of one thing in another, he finds forms’
Clive James

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