Les Murray (poet)
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Leslie Allan Murray (born 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet and critic. He has won numerous awards and prizes, and many consider him to be one of the country's most important poets. He was was born in Nabiac on the North Coast of New South Wales, and continues to live in the nearby town of Bunyah.
Murray attended primary and early high school in Nabiac, then attended Taree High School. In 1957 he commenced study at the University of Sydney, reading modern languages, and during this period became a professional translator. While at university he also became a Roman Catholic. In 1969 he took up writing full-time, after spending some time travelling and completing his degree course.
Murray has edited the magazine Poetry Australia, and currently serves as literary editor of Quadrant.
[edit] Works
- The Ilex Tree (1965) (with Geoffrey Lehmann) poems
- The Weatherboard Cathedral (1969) poems
- Poems Against Economics (1972)
- Lunch and Counter Lunch (1974)
- The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems (1976)
- Ethnic Radio (1978) poems
- The Peasant Mandarin (1978) prose
- The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1980) verse novel
- Equanimities (1982) poems
- The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981 (1982)
- The People's Otherworld (1983) poems
- Persistence in Folly (1984) prose
- The Daylight Moon (1987), poems
- Late Summer Fires (1996), poems
- The Idyll Wheel (1989) poems
- Dog Fox Field (1990) poems
- Blocks and Tackles (1990) prose
- The Rabbiter's Bounty (1991)
- Translations from the Natural World (1992) poems
- Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996) poetry (winner of the 1996 TS Eliot Prize)
- A Working Forest (1997) prose
- Fredy Neptune (1998) verse novel
- Learning Human (2000) poetry (shortlisted for the 2001 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow (2000)
- Conscious & Verbal (2001) poetry (shortlisted for the 2002 International Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Poems the Size of Photographs (2002) poetry
- The Biplane Houses (2006) poetry
