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- Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
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The Adelaide Review
no.
144
October
1995
Z591375
1995
periodical issue
1995
(pg. 281995)
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The Adelaide Review
no.
144
October
1995
Z591375
1995
periodical issue
1995
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The Independent Monthly
[vol.7 no.6], December-January (1995-1996)
1995
Z600783
1995
periodical issue
1995
(pg. 781995)
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The Independent Monthly
[vol.7 no.6], December-January (1995-1996)
1995
Z600783
1995
periodical issue
1995
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Subhuman Redneck Poems
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1996
Z175001
1996
selected work
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
'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 all of us.' (Publication summary)
Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1996(pg. 75-771996)
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Subhuman Redneck Poems
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1996
Z175001
1996
selected work
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
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Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology
John Leonard
(editor),
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1998
Z461207
1998
anthology
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
A thorough survey of poetry by Australians in English, beginning with a selection of contemporary work by younger poets, and going backward in time to the early colonial period. In addition to poems in the literary tradition, it indudes performance poetry, convict songs and old bush ballads. An extensive selection has been provided from the work of five major twentieth-century poets: Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, A.D. Hope and Kenneth Slessor. Several features are provided to assist the reader: the date of first publication of each poem is provided; footnotes explain unfamiliar words and allusions; and brief biographical notes assist in locating each poet in his or her place in time.
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1998
(pg. 116-1181998)
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Australian Verse : An Oxford Anthology
John Leonard
(editor),
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1998
Z461207
1998
anthology
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
A thorough survey of poetry by Australians in English, beginning with a selection of contemporary work by younger poets, and going backward in time to the early colonial period. In addition to poems in the literary tradition, it indudes performance poetry, convict songs and old bush ballads. An extensive selection has been provided from the work of five major twentieth-century poets: Les Murray, Gwen Harwood, Judith Wright, A.D. Hope and Kenneth Slessor. Several features are provided to assist the reader: the date of first publication of each poem is provided; footnotes explain unfamiliar words and allusions; and brief biographical notes assist in locating each poet in his or her place in time.
Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
1998
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New Selected Poems
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
Z918005
1998
selected work
poetry
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
(pg. 187-1891998)
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New Selected Poems
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
Z918005
1998
selected work
poetry
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
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New Selected Poems
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
Z918005
1998
selected work
poetry
New York (City)
:
Farrar Straus and Giroux
,
2000
(pg. 193-1952000)
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New Selected Poems
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
1998
Z918005
1998
selected work
poetry
New York (City)
:
Farrar Straus and Giroux
,
2000
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Learning Human : New Selected Poems
Les Murray
,
Manchester
:
Carcanet
,
2001
Z1153302
2001
selected work
poetry
Manchester
:
Carcanet
,
2001
(pg. 146-1492001)
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Learning Human : New Selected Poems
Les Murray
,
Manchester
:
Carcanet
,
2001
Z1153302
2001
selected work
poetry
Manchester
:
Carcanet
,
2001
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Seven Centuries of Poetry in English
John Leonard
(editor),
South Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
2003
Z1058257
2003
anthology
poetry
(taught in 6 units)
Contains poetry from twelve countries, including Australia, and spans the development of English poetry over seven centuries.
South Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
2003
(pg. 32-342003)
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Seven Centuries of Poetry in English
John Leonard
(editor),
South Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
2003
Z1058257
2003
anthology
poetry
(taught in 6 units)
Contains poetry from twelve countries, including Australia, and spans the development of English poetry over seven centuries.
South Melbourne
:
Oxford University Press
,
2003
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Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
2003
Z1147830
2003
selected work
poetry
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
2003
(pg. 142-1442003)
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Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray
Les Murray
,
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
2003
Z1147830
2003
selected work
poetry
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
2003
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Australian Poetry Library
APRIL;
APL;
The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
John Tranter
,
Sydney
:
2004-
Z1368099
2004-
website
'The Australian Poetry Library (APL) aims to promote a greater appreciation and understanding of Australian poetry by providing access to a wide range of poetic texts as well as to critical and contextual material relating to them, including interviews, photographs and audio/visual recordings.
This website currently contains over 42,000 poems, representing the work of more than 170 Australian poets. All the poems are fully searchable, and may be accessed and read freely on the World Wide Web. Readers wishing to download and print poems may do so for a small fee, part of which is returned to the poets via CAL, the Copyright Agency Limited. Teachers, students and readers of Australian poetry can also create personalised anthologies, which can be purchased and downloaded. Print on demand versions will be availabe from Sydney University Press in the near future.
It is hoped that the APL will encourage teachers to use more Australian material in their English classes, as well as making Australian poetry much more available to readers in remote and regional areas and overseas. It will also help Australian poets, not only by developing new audiences for their work but by allowing them to receive payment for material still in copyright, thus solving the major problem associated with making this material accessible on the Internet.
The Australian Poetry Library is a joint initiative of the University of Sydney and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). Begun in 2004 with a prototype site developed by leading Australian poet John Tranter, the project has been funded by a major Linkage Grant from the Australian Research Council (ARC), CAL and the University of Sydney Library. A team of researchers from the University of Sydney, led by Professor Elizabeth Webby and John Tranter, in association with CAL, have developed the Australian Poetry Library as a permanent and wide-ranging Internet archive of Australian poetry resources.' Source: www.poetrylibrary.edu.au (Sighted 30/05/2011).
Sydney : 2004-(2004-)
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Australian Poetry Library
APRIL;
APL;
The Australian Poetry Resources Internet Library
John Tranter
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Sydney
:
2004-
Z1368099
2004-
website
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Selected Poems
Les Murray
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Melbourne
:
Black Inc.
,
2007
Z1434567
2007
selected work
poetry
(taught in 2 units)
'Selected Poems ... comprises what Murray himself considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all his collections up to and including The Biplane Houses but not including his two verse novels.' (Publisher's blurb)
Melbourne
:
Black Inc.
,
2007
(pg. 1812007)
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Selected Poems
Les Murray
,
Melbourne
:
Black Inc.
,
2007
Z1434567
2007
selected work
poetry
(taught in 2 units)
'Selected Poems ... comprises what Murray himself considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all his collections up to and including The Biplane Houses but not including his two verse novels.' (Publisher's blurb)
Melbourne
:
Black Inc.
,
2007
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Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
Nicholas Jose
(editor),
Kerryn Goldsworthy
(editor),
Anita Heiss /specialistDatasets/BlackWords
(editor),
David McCooey
(editor),
Peter Minter /specialistDatasets/BlackWords
(editor),
Nicole Moore
(editor),
Elizabeth Webby
(editor),
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2009
Z1590615
2009
anthology
correspondence
diary
drama
essay
extract
poetry
prose
short story
(taught in 23 units)
'Some of the best, most significant writing produced in Australia over more than two centuries is gathered in this landmark anthology. Covering all genres - from fiction, poetry and drama to diaries, letters, essays and speeches - the anthology maps the development of one of the great literatures in English in all its energy and variety.
'The writing reflects the diverse experiences of Australians in their encounter with their extraordinary environment and with themselves. This is literature of struggle, conflict and creative survival. It is literature of lives lived at the extremes, of frontiers between cultures, of new dimensions of experience, where imagination expands.
'This rich, informative and entertaining collection charts the formation of an Australian voice that draws inventively on Indigenous words, migrant speech and slang, with a cheeky, subversive humour always to the fore. For the first time, Aboriginal writings are interleaved with other English-language writings throughout - from Bennelong's 1796 letter to the contemporary flowering of Indigenous fiction and poetry - setting up an exchange that reveals Australian history in stark new ways.
'From vivid settler accounts to haunting gothic tales, from raw protest to feisty urban satire and playful literary experiment, from passionate love poetry to moving memoir, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature reflects the creative eloquence of a society.
'Chosen by a team of expert editors, who have provided illuminating essays about their selections, and with more than 500 works from over 300 authors, it is an authoritative survey and a rich world of reading to be enjoyed.' (Publisher's blurb)
Allen and Unwin have a YouTube channel with a number of useful videos on the Anthology.
Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2009(pg. 908-9112009)
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Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature
Nicholas Jose
(editor),
Kerryn Goldsworthy
(editor),
Anita Heiss /specialistDatasets/BlackWords
(editor),
David McCooey
(editor),
Peter Minter /specialistDatasets/BlackWords
(editor),
Nicole Moore
(editor),
Elizabeth Webby
(editor),
Crows Nest
:
Allen and Unwin
,
2009
Z1590615
2009
anthology
correspondence
diary
drama
essay
extract
poetry
prose
short story
(taught in 23 units)
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The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry
John Leonard
(editor),
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2009
Z1674214
2009
anthology
poetry
(taught in 16 units)
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2009
(pg. 160-1622009)
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The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry
John Leonard
(editor),
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2009
Z1674214
2009
anthology
poetry
(taught in 16 units)
Glebe
:
Puncher and Wattmann
,
2009
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100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss
Jamie Grant
(editor),
Prahran
:
Hardie Grant Books
,
2011
Z1758937
2011
anthology
poetry
Prahran
:
Hardie Grant Books
,
2011
(pg. 167-1692011)
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100 Australian Poems of Love and Loss
Jamie Grant
(editor),
Prahran
:
Hardie Grant Books
,
2011
Z1758937
2011
anthology
poetry
Prahran
:
Hardie Grant Books
,
2011
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The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray
Les Murray
,
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2012
Z1897512
2012
selected work
poetry
'From his life’s work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this elegant hardback is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.' (From the publisher's website.)
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2012
(pg. 62-642012)
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The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray
Les Murray
,
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2012
Z1897512
2012
selected work
poetry
'From his life’s work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best. Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this elegant hardback is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.' (From the publisher's website.)
Collingwood
:
Black Inc.
,
2012
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Love Is Strong as Death
Paul Kelly
(editor),
Melbourne
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2019
17491295
2019
anthology
poetry
'Paul Kelly’s songs are steeped in poetry. And now he has gathered from around the world the poems he loves – poems that have inspired and challenged him over the years, a number of which he has set to music. This wide-ranging and deeply moving anthology combines the ancient and the modern, the hallowed and the profane, the famous and the little known, to speak to two of literature’s great themes that have proven so powerful in his music: love and death – plus everything in between.
'Here are poems by Yehuda Amichai, W.H. Auden, Tusiata Avia, Hera Lindsay Bird, William Blake, Bertolt Brecht, Constantine Cavafy, Alison Croggon, Mahmoud Darwish, Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Ali Cobby Eckermann, James Fenton, Thomas Hardy, Kevin Hart, Gwen Harwood, Seamus Heaney, Philip Hodgins, Homer, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Langston Hughes, John Keats, Ono No Komachi, Maxine Kumin, Philip Larkin, Li-Young Lee, Norman MacCaig, Paula Meehan, Czeslaw Milosz, Les Murray, Pablo Neruda, Sharon Olds, Ovid, Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Porter, Rumi, Anne Sexton, William Shakespeare, Izumi Shikibu, Warsan Shire, Kenneth Slessor, Wislawa Szymborska, Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Ko Un, Walt Whitman, Judith Wright, W.B. Yeats and many more.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2019(2019)
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Love Is Strong as Death
Paul Kelly
(editor),
Melbourne
:
Hamish Hamilton
,
2019
17491295
2019
anthology
poetry
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Verschollen : Ausgewählte Gedichte
Les Murray
,
Neumarkt
:
Thomas Reche
,
2008
16384740
2008
selected work
poetry
Neumarkt
:
Thomas Reche
,
2008
(2008)
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Verschollen : Ausgewählte Gedichte
Les Murray
,
Neumarkt
:
Thomas Reche
,
2008
16384740
2008
selected work
poetry
Neumarkt
:
Thomas Reche
,
2008
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Related Works
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The Widower
Lyndon Terracini
,
( dir. Kevin Lucas
)
2004
Z1134392
2004
single work
film/TV
'Structured around a collection of quintessential Les Murray poems that offer an engaging story about two Australian men - a father and son - who have lost the most treasured woman in their lives, The Widower is a poetically conceived music-drama that explores themes of ageing, isolation, loss and love in an Australian rural setting.'
(Source: The Australian Film Commission website, http://www.afc.gov.au/)