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  A Working Forest : selected prose
 selected work  prose  autobiography  review  column  criticism  obituary  film/TV
Author: Murray, Les (a.k.a. Murray, Leslie Allan; Murray, L.; Murray, Les A. )

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Abstract: This selection consists of essays and reviews from The Australian Year, Doubletake, three earlier prose selections - The Peasant Mandarin, Persistence in Folly and Blocks and Tackles - and some previously uncollected work.
Notes:
  • Dedication: To the greater glory of God
  • Reviews of books not of Australian literary interest have not been individually listed.
Publication details:
 
  
Potts Point, New South Wales : Duffy and Snellgrove, 1997.
ISBN: 1875989153, 1875989161 (with CD)
Extent: 402p.
Notes:
  • Available with CD of Murray reading his own poetry.
Includes:
  1. From Bulby Brush to Figure City  biography - Murray, Les
    (pp.3-6)
  2. The Bonnie Disproportion  autobiography  prose - Murray, Les
    (pp.7-29)
  3. On Being Subject Matter  biography - Murray, Les
    (pp.30-44)
  4. A Generation of Changes  prose  autobiography - Murray, Les
    (pp.45-52)
  5. Notes on the Writing of a Novel Sequence  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.53-56)
  6. In a Working Forest  prose  autobiography - Murray, Les
    (pp.57-73)
  7. The Best of Our Man in Bunyah : A Column in The Independent Monthly, 1993-1996  selected work  column - Murray, Les
    (pp.74-103)
  8. A Folk University  column - Murray, Les
    (pp.107-109)
  9. The Australian Republic  prose - Murray, Les
    (pp.110-120)
  10. On Sitting Back and Thinking About Porter's Boeotia  essay - Murray, Les (Alternative title: Peter Porter : On First Looking into Chapman's Hesiod)
    (pp.121-129)
  11. Some Religious Stuff I Know About Australia  prose - Murray, Les
    (pp.130-147)
  12. Eric Rolls and the Golden Disobedience  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.148-166)
  13. Preface  prose - Murray, Les (Alternative title: The Import of Seasons)
    (pp.167-170)
  14. Flaunt, Scunge and Death-Freckles  prose - Murray, Les
    (pp.171-177)
  15. Snow Gums  prose - Murray, Les
    (pp.178-182)
  16. The Suspect Captivity of the Fisher King  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.183-189)
  17. The Noblesse Trap : The Ills and Possibilities of Arts Patronage  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.190-210)
  18. Making the Pledge  prose - Murray, Les
    (pp.211-213)
  19. Wheatish and Auspicious  biography  travel - Murray, Les
    (pp.223-227)
  20. Antarctica : An Adventure of a Different Nature  film/TV - Murray, Les (Alternative title: A Script for Antarctica)
    (pp.228-235)
    Note: Film script 'based on Assembly 9 of the film and discussions with the director'. (p.228)
  21. A North Coast Poet  review - Murray, Les
    (pp.255-257)
  22. From a Neighbour's Bowl  review - Murray, Les
    (pp.258-261)
  23. In Passion So Eloquent : A Personal Appreciation  obituary - Murray, Les (Alternative title: James McAuley- A Personal Appreciation)
    (pp.265-269)
  24. The Cross and the Cool Island  review - Murray, Les
    (pp.279-281)
  25. The Narrow-Columned Middle Ground : 19th Century Australian Poetry  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.282-308)
  26. Embodiment and Incarnation : Notes on Preparing an Anthology of Australian Religious Verse  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.309-325)
  27. Filming a Poem  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.330-343)
  28. The Trade in Images  prose - Murray, Les
    (pp.344-350)
  29. Understated Mastery  review - Murray, Les
    (pp.351-353)
  30. A Folk Inferno  criticism  biography - Murray, Les
    (pp.360-371)
  31. A Convict's Tour to Hell  poetry  satire  - MacNamara, Francis
    (pp.365-370)
    You prisoners of New South Wales,
  32. Poems and Poesies  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.372-385)
  33. Poemes and the Mystery of Embodiment  criticism - Murray, Les
    (pp.386-399)
  34. An Epilogue  review - Murray, Les
    (pp.400-402)
 
Works About:
  1.     Australian Poetry's Uluru and Iturkawara  review - Tulip, Jim (1997)
Appears in: Southerly vol.57 no.4 Summer 1997 - 1998
(pp.191-198)
  2.     Red Herrings Inc.  review - Matthews, Brian (1997)
Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books vol.2 no.10 November 1997
(pp.22-23,31)
  3.     A Calvinist Catholic  review - Forbes, John (1997)
Appears in: The Courier-Mail 23 August 1997
(wkd 8)
  4.     Books in Brief  review - Goldsworthy, Peter (1997)
Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books vol.2 no.6 July 1997
(p.28)
  5.     From a Little Scorn, a Mighty Oak Has Grown  review - Pierce, Peter (1997)
Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald 16 August 1997
(10s)
  6.     Grin and Tonic from Riling Les  review - McCredden, Lyn (1997)
Appears in: The Sunday Age 6 July 1997
(p.8)
  7.     Mystery and Resonance  review - Thomas, Mark (1997)
Appears in: The Canberra Times 2 August 1997
(C11)
  8.     Noonday Axeman  review - Taylor, Andrew (1997)
Appears in: Australian Book Review no.193 August 1997
(pp.45-47)
  9.     Secrets of the Semi-Sacred Art  review - Wallace-Crabbe, Chris (1997)
Appears in: The Age 5 July 1997
(p.7)
10.     Grand Flow of Murrayspeak  review - Craven, Peter (1998)
Appears in: The Weekend Australian 31 January-1 February 1998
(p.27)
11.     Les Murray's "Narrowspeak"  criticism - Pierce, Peter (2001)
Appears in: Australian Literary Studies vol.20 no.2 October 2001
(pp.76-86)
12.     Yawp! Sounding Local, Sounding Ugly  criticism - Brophy, Kevin (2003)
Appears in: Explorations in Creative Writing
Carlton, Victoria : Melbourne University Press, 2003
(pp.146-153)
 
AustLit BRN: 280031
Last amended: agt 7 Mar 2007
First known date: 1997
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