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  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1978... 1978 The Australian Republic
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Peasant Mandarin : Prose Pieces Les Murray , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1978 Z302780 1978 selected work prose criticism autobiography review Collection of previously published articles on a variety of subjects, including the arts and arts funding in Australia and the politics of republicanism, together with a selection of book reviews which Murray wrote, mostly for the Sydney Morning Herald, in the 1970s. St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1978 pg. 143-158
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    y separately published work icon A Working Forest : Selected Prose Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1997 Z536744 1997 selected work prose autobiography review column criticism obituary 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. Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1997 pg. 110-120
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    y separately published work icon The Quality of Sprawl : Thoughts about Australia Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1999 Z570816 1999 selected work prose autobiography criticism essay This selection consists of essays and reviews from A Working Forest, together with some previously uncollected work, providing an insight into Murray's thoughts about Australia's history and Australian attitudes to clothes, religion, the republican issue, Australian customs and the bush. Longer essays listed here are interspersed with short pieces which Murray wrote for his column 'Our Man in Bunyah' which ran in the Independent Monthly between 1993-1996, and which appear together in A Working Forest. Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1999 pg. 69-87
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