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  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1977... 1977 Ethnic Radio : Poems
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Notes

  • Dedication: For Valerie who came to Australia on the Goya

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Angus and Robertson , 1977 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Euchre Gamei"So drunk he kept it at tens - and the bloody thing lost!", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 1)
Lachlan Macquarie's First Languagei"The Governor and the seer are talking at night in a room", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 2)
The Flying-Fox Dreamingi"Now that the west", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 3)
Note: Title as: The Flying-Fox Dreaming, Wingham Brush, New South Wales
Visiting Anzac in the Year of Metricationi"Gelibolu, Chanakkale-", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 4-6)
Sydney and the Bushi"When Sydney and the Bush first met", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 7)
The Powerline Incarnationi"When I ran to snatch the wires off our roof", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 8-9)
The Returneesi"As we were rowing to the lakes", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 10-12)
Spurwing Ploveri"Foiled hunters sulk homewards at dusk", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 13)
Laconics : The Forty Acresi"We have bought the Forty Acres,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 14)
Digestifi"Snowflakes on skewers:", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 15-16)
Creeper Habiti"On Bennelong Point", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 17)
Tanka: The Coffee Shopsi"Lorenzini's, Vadim's,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 18)
The Galleryi"Stale pasture, midsummer", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 19-22)
Employment for the Castes in Abeyancei"I was a translator at the Institute:", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
The New Expatriation (Written for John Kerr on the Night of Australia Day 1976)i"A tethered boat, shifting,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 25-26)
Driving to the Adelaide Festival 1976 Via the Murray Valley Highwayi"A long narrow woodland with channels, reentrants, ponds:", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 27)
The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cyclei"The people are eating dinner in that country north of Legge's Lake;", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 28-38)
The Swarmi"On a stone wall, adrift from their hive", Les Murray , single work poetry satire (p. 39)
Free Kirk Cemetery, Northern New South Walesi"I farmed in the land", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 40)
A Skirl for Outsetsi"The sea smooths a page of its folio", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 40-42)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

The Leisured Classes Robert Wood , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;

'My love of the world game and of world literature exist alongside one another. 1994 stands as a remarkable year when I both fell in love with USA ’94, watching Roberto Baggio sky the ball over the cross-bar to lose on penalties, and when I began reading novels on my own. In 1998, I watched France win while visiting family in Singapore, a true testament to adolescence, eating fried kway teow in front of the big screen, watching Frank Leboeuf and Lilian Thuram defend as though their lives depended on it, which they surely did. In that year, I remember with great fondness reading J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K as I began to find my way through contemporary writers who had won ‘Big Prizes’. By 2002, when South Korea and Japan hosted the World Cup, I had started making my way through the classics, from Kharms to Camus to Coleridge. And so, football and reading have always been about leisure to me.'  (Introduction)

A Poetics of Sacred and Secular in Australia Lyn McCredden , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;

'This essay examines the claims to secularity of contemporary Australia, arguing that in the context of Indigenous Australians' declaration, in the document 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', and of many poetic expressions, we must more fully explore the category of the sacred. Further, the essay argues that in contemporary Australia, sacred and secular domains need to be mutually engaged. The essay offers the idea of the poetic sacred - where secular (political, earthed, civic) and sacred (numinous, transcendent, meaning-making) possibilities can be seen in dialogue. 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', as well as the poetry of Bruce Dawe, Les Murray, Lionel Fogarty and Judith Beveridge are examined, as exemplars of the poetic sacred.' (Publication abstract)

1978: New Poetry Noel Macainsh , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 56-58)

— Review of Gifts Upon the Water Alec Choate , 1978 selected work poetry ; Over the Frontier : Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1978 selected work poetry ; Ross' Poems Geoffrey Lehmann , 1978 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems Les Murray , 1977 selected work poetry ; Words with a Black Orpington David Campbell , 1978 selected work poetry ; Product : Later Verses Robert D. FitzGerald , 1977 selected work poetry
The Bardic Pose: A Survey of Les A. Murray's Poetry : [Part] 3 Christopher Pollnitz , 1981 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 41 no. 2 1981; (p. 188-210)
Correspondence Mark O'Connor , 1980 single work
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 2 no. 1 1980; (p. 160-161)
Too Many?: A Review of Recent Australian Poetry S. E. Lee , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 39 no. 4 1979; (p. 432-461)

— Review of Hails and Farewells : And Other Poems Nancy Keesing , 1977 selected work poetry ; Fourth Quarter Judith Wright , 1976 selected work poetry ; The Cost of Seriousness Peter Porter , 1978 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Rodney Hall , 1975 selected work poetry ; Black Bagatelles Rodney Hall , 1978 sequence poetry ; A Body of Words Geoffrey Dutton , 1977 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Geoffrey Lehmann , 1976 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems 1934-1974 Ian Mudie , 1976 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems Les Murray , 1977 selected work poetry ; Words with a Black Orpington David Campbell , 1978 selected work poetry ; Product : Later Verses Robert D. FitzGerald , 1977 selected work poetry ; Thrusting into Darkness Robert Clark , 1978 selected work poetry ; Selected Verse of Paul Grano (1894-1975) Paul L. Grano , 1976 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Thomas Shapcott , 1978 selected work poetry ; Collected Verse J. S. Manifold , 1978 selected work poetry ; The Secret Greenness and Other Poems R. H. Morrison , 1978 selected work poetry
1978: New Poetry Noel Macainsh , 1998 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 200 1998; (p. 56-58)

— Review of Gifts Upon the Water Alec Choate , 1978 selected work poetry ; Over the Frontier : Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1978 selected work poetry ; Ross' Poems Geoffrey Lehmann , 1978 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems Les Murray , 1977 selected work poetry ; Words with a Black Orpington David Campbell , 1978 selected work poetry ; Product : Later Verses Robert D. FitzGerald , 1977 selected work poetry
A Small Garland Elaine Lindsay , 1979 single work review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 23 no. 3 1979; (p. 70)

— Review of Words with a Black Orpington David Campbell , 1978 selected work poetry ; Ethnic Radio : Poems Les Murray , 1977 selected work poetry
[Review] Ross' Poems Alan Gould , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: Nation Review , 14-20 July 1978; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Ethnic Radio : Poems Les Murray , 1977 selected work poetry ; Ross' Poems Geoffrey Lehmann , 1978 selected work poetry
[Review] Ethnic Radio : Poems J. Griffin , 1978 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 February 1978; (p. 25)

— Review of Ethnic Radio : Poems Les Murray , 1977 selected work poetry
Who's Ignatius, Whose Loyola? Les Murray , 1979 single work correspondence
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 1 no. 2 1979; (p. 149-154)
Correspondence Mark O'Connor , 1980 single work
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 2 no. 1 1980; (p. 160-161)
The Bardic Pose: A Survey of Les A. Murray's Poetry : [Part] 3 Christopher Pollnitz , 1981 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 41 no. 2 1981; (p. 188-210)
A Poetics of Sacred and Secular in Australia Lyn McCredden , 2020 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 20 no. 2 2020;

'This essay examines the claims to secularity of contemporary Australia, arguing that in the context of Indigenous Australians' declaration, in the document 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', and of many poetic expressions, we must more fully explore the category of the sacred. Further, the essay argues that in contemporary Australia, sacred and secular domains need to be mutually engaged. The essay offers the idea of the poetic sacred - where secular (political, earthed, civic) and sacred (numinous, transcendent, meaning-making) possibilities can be seen in dialogue. 'Uluru: Statement from the Heart', as well as the poetry of Bruce Dawe, Les Murray, Lionel Fogarty and Judith Beveridge are examined, as exemplars of the poetic sacred.' (Publication abstract)

The Leisured Classes Robert Wood , 2022 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 December no. 107 2022;

'My love of the world game and of world literature exist alongside one another. 1994 stands as a remarkable year when I both fell in love with USA ’94, watching Roberto Baggio sky the ball over the cross-bar to lose on penalties, and when I began reading novels on my own. In 1998, I watched France win while visiting family in Singapore, a true testament to adolescence, eating fried kway teow in front of the big screen, watching Frank Leboeuf and Lilian Thuram defend as though their lives depended on it, which they surely did. In that year, I remember with great fondness reading J.M. Coetzee’s Life and Times of Michael K as I began to find my way through contemporary writers who had won ‘Big Prizes’. By 2002, when South Korea and Japan hosted the World Cup, I had started making my way through the classics, from Kharms to Camus to Coleridge. And so, football and reading have always been about leisure to me.'  (Introduction)

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