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All Publication Details
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Notes:First published in Quadrant as "The Contractors".
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- y Quadrant vol. 37 no. 5 May 1993 Z609233 1993 periodical issue 1993 pg. 69
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Subhuman Redneck Poems
Potts Point
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Duffy and Snellgrove
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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. 27
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Subhuman Redneck Poems
Potts Point
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Duffy and Snellgrove
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1996
Z175001
1996
selected work
poetry
(taught in 1 units)
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Killing the Black Dog : Essay and Poems
Leichhardt
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Federation Press
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1997
Z483382
1997
selected work
poetry
prose
'Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's courageous account of his struggle with depression, accompanied by poems specially selected by the author. Since the first edition appeared in 1997, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history.
'As Murray writes in this revised and updated edition, the title was premature. He had mistaken a remission for a cure, and thought himself freed from the severe depressive illness which had twice invaded his life. Now, in a new afterword, he describes a relapse, but also shares some of the fruits of his further contemplation. He shows gratitude for help previously unacknowledged, and describes how patches of daylight now balance out those of darkness in his life. A further half dozen poems have been added, reflecting a more complex understanding of depression and its role in the lives of its sufferers.' (From Black Inc.'s website, abstract for the revised edition.)
Leichhardt : Federation Press , 1997 pg. 36
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y
Killing the Black Dog : Essay and Poems
Leichhardt
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Federation Press
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1997
Z483382
1997
selected work
poetry
prose
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- y New Selected Poems Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z918005 1998 selected work poetry Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 pg. 164
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- y New Selected Poems Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z918005 1998 selected work poetry New York (City) : Farrar Straus and Giroux , 2000 pg. 168
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- y Learning Human : New Selected Poems Manchester : Carcanet , 2001 Z1153302 2001 selected work poetry Manchester : Carcanet , 2001 pg. 129
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- y Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2003 Z1147830 2003 selected work poetry Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2003 pg. 125
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- y Selected Poems 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. 163
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