Collected Poems

✍ Scribed by Murray, Les

• Book ID: 100193153
• Publisher: Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd;Black Inc
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 345 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1921825448

✦ Synopsis

Cover page; title page; copyright page; dedication; contents; from the ilex tree, 1965; the burning truck; tableau in january; the trainee, 1914; the widower in the country; noonday axeman; the away-bound train; spring hail; driving through sawmill towns; 1980 in a street of federation houses; from the weatherboard cathedral, 1969; evening alone at bunyah; the princes' land; ill music; troop train returning; blood; the abomination; once in a lifetime, snow; recourse to the wilderness; the commercial hotel; the incendiary method; an absolutely ordinary rainbow; working men.;Les Murray's Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree (1965) to Poems the Size of Photographs (2002). In tracing Murray's artistic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery.""He is, quite simply, the one by whom language lives.""--Joseph Brodsky""There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate an.