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Feb
February : Feb
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"Seedy drytime Feb,",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 41 1987; (p. 15) Dog Fox Field : Poems 1990; (p. 3-4) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 301-302) New Selected Poems 1998; (p. 105-106) New Selected Poems 2000; (p. 111-112) Learning Human : New Selected Poems 2001; (p. 86-87) -
March : Masculeene, Cried the Bulls
Masculeene, Cried the Bulls
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"Bang! it was autumn,",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 41 1987; (p. 15) Dog Fox Field : Poems 1990; (p. 5-6) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 303-304) -
April : the Idyll Wheel
The Idyll Wheel
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"And so we've come right round the sun",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 41 1987; (p. 15) Dog Fox Field : Poems 1990; (p. 7-8) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 304-305) -
Preface
Preface to the Idyll Wheel
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"An east-running valley where two hooded creeks make junction",
1989
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Poetry Australia , no. 120 1989; (p. 4-5) Dog Fox Field : Poems 1990; (p. 14-15) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 285-286) Modern Australian Poetry : An Exhibition of Material from the Rare Book Collection, Monash University Library 1999; (p. 9) -
September : Mercurial
Mercurial September
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"Preindustrial haze. The white sky rim",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Magazine , 20-21 December 1986; (p. 5) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 69) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 295-296) Selected Poems 2007; (p. 103) -
June : The Kitchens
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"This deep in the year, in the frosts of then",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 53-55) The Tin Wash Dish : Poems from Today's Australians 1989; (p. 89-92) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 289-292) New Selected Poems 1998; (p. 98-100) New Selected Poems 2000; (p. 101-104) Learning Human : New Selected Poems 2001; (p. 80-82) -
May : When Bounty is Down to Persimmons and Lemons
When Bounty is Down to Persimmons and Lemons
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"In May, Mary's month,",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , June no. 27 1986; (p. 15) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 52) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 288-289) New Selected Poems 1998; (p. 96-97) New Selected Poems 2000; (p. 99-100) Learning Human : New Selected Poems 2001; (p. 79) -
November : The Misery Cord
The Misery Cord
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"Misericord. The Misery Cord.",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , January no. 34 1987; (p. 14) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 78) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 297-298) New Selected Poems 1998; (p. 103) New Selected Poems 2000; (p. 107-108) Learning Human : New Selected Poems 2001; (p. 84-85) -
December : Infant Among Cattle
Infant Among Cattle
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"Young parents, up at dawn, working. Their first child can't",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 79) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 298-299) New Selected Poems 1998; (p. 104) New Selected Poems 2000; (p. 109-110) Learning Human : New Selected Poems 2001; (p. 85-86) Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray 2003; (p. 84-85)
— Appears in: Holy Cows 2006; (p. 32-35) 'To One Who Asked for Summer' : Les Murray 2009; -
July : Midwinter Haircut
Midwinter Haircut
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"Now the world has stopped. Dead middle of the year.",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , September no. 30 1986; (p. 14) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 59-60) Writers in Action: The Writer's Choice Evenings 1990; (p. 101-102) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 292-293) New Selected Poems 1998; (p. 101-102) New Selected Poems 2000; (p. 105-106) -
August : Forty Acre Ethno
Forty Acre Ethno
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"The Easter rains are late this year",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 15 November 1986; (p. 49) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 61) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 294-295) Selected Poems 2007; (p. 101) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 11) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 11) -
October : Freshwater and Salt
Freshwater and Salt
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"It's the opening of the surf season",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Quarterly , 3-4 October 1987; (p. 10) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 73) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 296-297) -
January : Variations on a Measure of Burns
Variations on a Measure of Burns
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"When January is home to visit her folks",
1987
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Phoenix Review , Special Issue - Winter 1987; (p. 54-55) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 80-81) The Adelaide Review , March no. 36 1987; (p. 24) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 299-301) -
April : Leaf Spring
Leaf Spring
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"The long-limbed hills recline high",
1986
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , May no. 26 1986; (p. 13) Antipodes , March vol. 1 no. 1 1987; (p. 12) The Daylight Moon : Poems 1987; (p. 48-49) Writers in Action: The Writer's Choice Evenings 1990; (p. 111-112) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 286-287)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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'This Country is My Mind' : Les Murray's Poetics of Place
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 2 2001; (p. 15-42) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 44) Examines the "notion of place in Murray's work, the complex nature of Bunyah as a 'centre of the world', and how a poetics of place is established and develops from the earliest collections" (p.16). -
This Country is My Mind
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 39 no. 1 1994; (p. 67-79) -
`Contour-Line by Contour': Landscape Change as an Index of History in the Poetry of Les Murray
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 3 1994; (p. 249-261) -
From Linear to Areal: Suggestions Towards a Comparative Literary Geography of Canada and Australia
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 12 no. 3 1990; (p. 75-85) -
Shedding Light on Metaphor and Myth
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 19-20 August 1989; (p. 9)
— Review of Small Arm Practice 1989 selected work poetry ; The Idyll Wheel : Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986 - April 1987 1989 sequence poetry
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Rich Crop of Recent Poetry
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 7 October 1989; (p. 14)
— Review of The Epigrams of Martial 1989 selected work poetry ; Years Found in Likeness 1988 selected work poetry ; The Clean Dark 1989 selected work poetry ; Singles : Shorter Works 1981-1986 1989 selected work poetry ; The Idyll Wheel : Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986 - April 1987 1989 sequence poetry ; The Asphalt and the Stars 1989 selected work poetry -
From Psychiatric Ward to Boeotia
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 July 1989; (p. 78)
— Review of Charles Buckmaster Collected Poems 1989 collected work poetry ; The Idyll Wheel : Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986 - April 1987 1989 sequence poetry -
Shedding Light on Metaphor and Myth
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 19-20 August 1989; (p. 9)
— Review of Small Arm Practice 1989 selected work poetry ; The Idyll Wheel : Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986 - April 1987 1989 sequence poetry -
From Linear to Areal: Suggestions Towards a Comparative Literary Geography of Canada and Australia
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 12 no. 3 1990; (p. 75-85) -
This Country is My Mind
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , Autumn vol. 39 no. 1 1994; (p. 67-79) -
`Contour-Line by Contour': Landscape Change as an Index of History in the Poetry of Les Murray
1994
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 16 no. 3 1994; (p. 249-261) -
'This Country is My Mind' : Les Murray's Poetics of Place
2001
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 20 no. 2 2001; (p. 15-42) The AustLit Anthology of Criticism 2010; (p. 44) Examines the "notion of place in Murray's work, the complex nature of Bunyah as a 'centre of the world', and how a poetics of place is established and develops from the earliest collections" (p.16).
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