Les Murray
The octopus is dead
who lived in Wylies Baths
below the circus balustrade
and the chocked sea tiles.
The Penguin Book of Australian Bush Writing edited by edited by John Ross
by Susan K. Martin •
Biplane Houses by Les Murray & Collected Poems by Les Murray
by Lisa Gorton •
Paul Kane reviews ‘The Poetry of Les Murray’ edited by Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross, ‘Les Murray’ by Steven Matthews, and ‘Poems the Size of Photographs’ by Les Murray
by Paul Kane •
You might expect a book of eighty-eight new poems by Les Murray to be sizeable (most of his recent single volumes run to about sixty poems each). But Poems the Size of Photographs is literally a small book, composed of short poems (‘though some are longer’, says the back cover) ...
... (read more)Despite the protestations of my close friends I choose to regard myself as a normal person. Only at certain times of the year do I realise how tenuous are my links with the mundane world.
One of these troublesome occasions is when I prepare my income tax form.
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