Collected poems - Les A. Murray

Les Murray has been working on his massive new verse novel, but the lyric and satirical muses have not abandoned him. Subhuman Redneck Poems, with its rumbustious title, was awarded the 1996 T.S.Eliot Prize. This collection, along with Dog Fox Field (1991) and Translations from the Natural World (1993) is added to his expanded and corrected 1991 Collected Poems, bringing the first 60 years of his life into sharp and memorable focus.



`It would be as myopic to regard Mr Murray as an Australian poet as to call Yeats an Irishman. He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language

lives,' Joseph Brodsky said. And Derek Walcott:
`There is no poetry in the English language so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational.'