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Poetry Signatures Carcanet (publisher), series - publisher
1 2 y separately published work icon Rondo Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Manchester : Carcanet , 2018 15629710 2018 selected work poetry

'Chris Wallace-Crabbe's Rondo harvests a decade's worth of new writing by one of Australia's foremost poets. It paints a vivid portrait of eucalypt Australia's current position in an rapidly changing world. The poet asks for fresh meanings from Gallipoli and Scotland, from physics and from `Art's porous auditorium', where poetry can still be heard. `The words are only the words,' he writes, `which is more or less everything.'' (Publication summary) 
 
1 7 y separately published work icon On Bunyah Les Murray , Collingwood : Black Inc. , 2015 8936138 2015 selected work poetry

'"Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws."

'On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs. From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries, Les Murray evokes the life and landscape of his part of the country.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1 7 y separately published work icon New and Selected Poems Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Manchester : Carcanet , 2013 Z1932860 2013 selected work poetry
1 2 y separately published work icon New Selected Poems Les Murray , Manchester : Carcanet , 2012 Z1898375 2012 selected work poetry 'New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection.

'Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today; endlessly inventive, his work celebrates the world and the power of the imagination. New Selected Poems is the poet's choice of his essential works: an indispensable collection for readers who already love his poetry, and an ideal introduction for those new to it.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 25 y separately published work icon Taller When Prone Les Murray , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2010 Z1679100 2010 selected work poetry 'Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life here and abroad - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape and the people who have shaped it. There are traveller's tales, elegies, meditative fragments and satirical sketches. Above all there is Murray's astonishing versatility, on display here at its exhilarating best.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 13 y separately published work icon Telling a Hawk from a Handsaw Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Manchester : Carcanet , 2008 Z1535034 2008 selected work poetry
1 3 y separately published work icon Nameless Earth Robert Gray , Manchester : Carcanet , 2006 Z1368459 2006 selected work poetry Includes the best of the author's 2002 publication Afterimages, as well as sixteen new poems.
1 1 y separately published work icon Hell and After : Four Early English-Language Poets of Australia Les Murray (editor), Manchester Petersham : Carcanet ETT Imprint , 2005 Z1219692 2005 anthology poetry prose
1 22 y separately published work icon Collected Poems : 1961-2002 Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2002 Z977352 2002 selected work poetry 'This volume includes all the poems [the author] wants to preserve, apart from his verse-novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book the Ilex Tree (1965) to Poems the Size of Photographs (2002).' (Back cover 2006 edition.)
2 12 y separately published work icon Poems the Size of Photographs Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2002 Z946930 2002 selected work poetry
1 y separately published work icon Learning Human : New Selected Poems Les Murray , Manchester : Carcanet , 2001 Z1153302 2001 selected work poetry
1 3 y separately published work icon Grass Script : Selected Earlier Poems. Robert Gray , Manchester : Carcanet , 2001 Z942576 2001 selected work poetry The poems in this representative collection were written between 1968 and 1987 and are drawn from Creek Water Journal (1974), Grass Script (1978), The Skylight (1983) and Piano (1988).
1 7 y separately published work icon By and Large Chris Wallace-Crabbe , Rose Bay : Brandl and Schlesinger , 2001 Z901669 2001 selected work poetry
1 3 y separately published work icon Selected Poems Jamie Grant , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2001 Z895583 2001 selected work poetry
1 11 y separately published work icon Conscious and Verbal Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1999 Z514896 1999 selected work poetry
5 69 y separately published work icon Fredy Neptune Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z66594 1998 single work novel (taught in 2 units) When German-Australian sailor Friedrich 'Fredy' Boettcher is shanghied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse during much of his life, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age. Told in blue-collar English that regains freshness by eschewing the mind-set of literary language, Fredy's picaresque life - as, perhaps, the only Nordic Superman ever - is deep-dyed in layers of irony and attains a mind-inverting resolution. (Libraries Australia)
1 29 y separately published work icon The Daylight Moon : Poems Les Murray , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1987 Z384668 1987 selected work poetry
1 1 y separately published work icon Collected Poems Les Murray , Manchester : Carcanet , 1998 Z308435 1998 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units) Contents as for Collected Poems, Heinemann 1994, with the addition of 59 poems from Subhuman Redneck.
3 41 y separately published work icon 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)
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