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Books by Les Murray

Les Murray was born in 1938 and grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales, where he still lives. He studied at Sydney University and later worked as a translator at the Australian National University and as an officer in the Prime Minister's Department. His real vocation was poetry, however, and from 1971 he has made literature his full-time career. He was the first Australian poet to achieve international acclaim without expatriation. Murray first visited Europe in the sixties, and has returned frequently since then to give poetry readings. Carcanet publish his Collected Poems and his New Selected Poems (2012), as well as his individual collections, including Subhuman Redneck Poems (1966, awarded the T.S.Eliot Prize) and The Biplane Houses (2006), and his essays and prose writings in The Paperbark Tree (1992). His verse novel Fredy Neptune appeared in 1998 and in 2004 won the Mondello Prize in Italy and a major German award at the Leipzig Book Fair. He also edited The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001-2010. Murray has special links with Scotland, and his Scots ancestors, whilst remaining an important and distinctive Australian writer. Blake Morrison, writing in the Independent on Sunday, called Murray: 'one of the finest poets writing in English today, one of the super league which includes Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky', and C. K. Stead said of his poetry in the London Review of Books: 'It is wonderfully disciplined writing, offering what poetry and nothing else can offer, an art that arrests one's otherwise ever frustrated sense of the richness of the life that lives only for the moment'. In 1994 Murray was nominated for the Oxford Chair of Poetry and in June 1999 he was awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at Buckingham Palace, an honour was recommended by the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes.
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray By Les Murray
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murrayby Les Murray
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New Selected Poems By Les Murray
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Subhuman Redneck Poems By Les Murray
Subhuman Redneck Poemsby Les Murray
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Continuous Creation By Les Murray
Continuous Creationby Les Murray
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Killing the Black Dog By Les Murray
Killing the Black Dogby Les Murray
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Continuous Creation By Les Murray
Continuous Creationby Les Murray
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Fredy Neptune By Les Murray
Fredy Neptuneby Les Murray
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Waiting for the Past By Les Murray
Waiting for the Pastby Les Murray
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Fredy Neptune By Les Murray
Fredy Neptuneby Les Murray
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New Selected Poems By Les Murray
New Selected Poemsby Les Murray
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New Collected Poems By Les Murray
New Collected Poemsby Les Murray
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Translations from Nature By Les Murray
Translations from Natureby Les Murray
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The Biplane Houses By Les Murray
The Biplane Housesby Les Murray
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Progress in Mathematics By Les Murray
Progress in Mathematicsby Les Murray
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New Selected Poems By Les Murray
New Selected Poemsby Les Murray
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Progress in Mathematics By Les Murray
Progress in Mathematicsby Les Murray
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Taller When Prone By Les Murray
Taller When Proneby Les Murray
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On Bunyah By Les Murray
On Bunyahby Les Murray
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Progress in Mathematics By Les Murray
Progress in Mathematicsby Les Murray
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Progress in Mathematics By Les Murray
Progress in Mathematicsby Les Murray
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