This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since "Poems the Size of Photographs "in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection--named for a kind of house distinctive to Murray's native Australia--exhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in[...]

The clearly-focussed lyrics of Les Murray's Waiting for the Past are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them - wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by sterilising chlorine. With the erasures the modern wo[...]

New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today; endlessly inventive, his work celebrates the world and[...]

På höjden av sin författarkarriär drabbas Les Murray av en mycket allvarlig depression. Den lamslår honom tidvis helt och tar flera år att övervinna. I den självbiografiska essän Den svarta hunden (hans symboliska namn på sjukdomen) redogör Murray med avväpnande uppriktighet för sina re[...]

Les Murrays poesi har uppmärksammats världen över och har översatts till många språk. Dikter från den efterblivna landsbygden är den första kompletta diktsamlingen av honom på svenska.

Les Murray föddes 1938 på en bondgård i New South Wales i sydöstra Australien. Han debute[...]

In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in a[...]