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Editor's note: The nation's river systems and dependent rural communities have been thrust once again into the national spotlight during the flood crises. Last November poet Les Murray prepared a suite of poems to be read in conjunction with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra's "Earth Concert". Unable to perform the reading, Murray has instead make them available to The Adelaide Review.
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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) -
Driving to the Adelaide Festival 1976 Via the Murray Valley Highway
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"A long narrow woodland with channels, reentrants, ponds:",
1976
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 27 March 1976; (p. 15) Ethnic Radio : Poems 1977; (p. 27) The Vernacular Republic : Poems 1961-1981 1982; (p. 157-158) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 136-137) Selected Poems 2007; (p. 18) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 11) -
The Moon Man
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"Shadowy kangaroos moved off",
2000
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 April 2000; (p. 14) The Adelaide Review , December no. 207 2000; (p. 20) PN Review , January-February vol. 27 no. 3 2001; (p. 20) Poems the Size of Photographs 2002; (p. 25) Masthead , no. 6 2002; Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray 2003; (p. 182) -
Slip
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"Over the terra cotta",
1990
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Dog Fox Field : Poems 1990; (p. 71-72) Quadrant , May vol. 34 no. 5 1990; (p. 21) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 342-343) New Selected Poems 1998; (p. 128-129) New Selected Poems 2000; (p. 137) Learning Human : New Selected Poems 2001; (p. 105-106) -
Oasis City
Oasis City, Mildura, Victoria
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"Rose-red city in the angles of a cut-up green anthology:",
1998
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Age , 6 June 1998; (p. 8) The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 June 1998; (p. 8) The Adelaide Review , June no. 177 1998; (p. 28) Kunapipi , vol. 20 no. 3 1998; (p. 53) Learning Human : New Selected Poems 2001; (p. 171-172) Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray 2003; (p. 164) -
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) -
From Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman
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"Shaking in slow low flight, with its span of many jets",
1985
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poetry
— Appears in: The Australian Year : The Chronicle of Our Seasons and Celebrations 1985; (p. 161) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 11) -
Cattle Ancestor
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"Darrambawli and all his wives, they came feeding from the south east",
1990
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Paris Review , no. 117 1990; (p. 217) Southern Review , November vol. 23 no. 3 1990; (p. 270) The Adelaide Review , March no. 86 1991; (p. 22) The Sydney Review , August no. 45 1992; (p. 10) Translations from the Natural World 1992; (p. 25) Collected Poems 1994; (p. 377)
— Appears in: Holy Cows 2006; (p. 50-51) -
The Sharman Drum
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"What year was the very best Mallee Show?",
2010
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Taller When Prone 2010; (p. 4) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 11) -
The Images Alone
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"Scarlet as the cloth draped over a sword,",
2000
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , January-February vol. 44 no. 1-2 2000; (p. 20) Poems the Size of Photographs 2002; (p. 9) Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray 2003; (p. 177) Selected Poems 2007; (p. 215) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 10) The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray 2012; (p. 72-74) -
From : The Family Farmers' Victory
2011
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poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 10) -
From : July
2011
extract
poetry
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 10) -
Rooms of the Sketch Garden
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"Women made the gardens, in my world,",
2007
extract
poetry
— Appears in: Selected Poems 2007; (p. 216) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 11) -
A Postcard
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"A mirror tar-top road across",
2007
single work
poetry
— Appears in: Selected Poems 2007; (p. 200) The Adelaide Review , February no. 372 2011; (p. 11) The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray 2012; (p. 69) -
Late Summer Fires
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"The paddocks shave black",
1992
single work
poetry
— Appears in: The Sydney Review , August no. 45 1992; (p. 4) Verse [UK] , Spring vol. 10 no. 1 1993; (p. 3) Subhuman Redneck Poems 1996; (p. 21) The Age , 15 January 1997; (p. A3) Les Murray 2001-; Selected Poems 2007; (p. 158)
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