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The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

From his life’s work, spanning more than four decades, Australia’s greatest poet, Les Murray, selected these 100 poems to be remembered as his personal best. Including classics such as ‘The Broad Bean Sermon’, ‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’ and ‘The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever’, this collection is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. It is a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia. 

About the author

Les Murray

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 volumes include The …

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Specifications

Release date: 31 Oct 2012

RRP: $22.99

Paperback ISBN: 9781760641870

Format: Paperback

Size: 198 x 128mm

Extent: 160pp

Praise for The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

‘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

‘There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broadleafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate and conversational.’ —Derek Walcott

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

 

‘He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.’ —Joseph Brodsky

 

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

 

‘An outstanding collection.’ —Canberra Times