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The Water Column single work   poetry   "We had followed the catwalk upriver"
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 The Water Column
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    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 37 no. 4 April 1993 Z656320 1993 periodical issue 1993 pg. 25
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    y separately published work icon POW! Poets on Wheels : An Anthology by Poets Reading on the Poetry Tour of Northern New South Wales, March 1994 Brian Purcell (editor), Sydney : The Poets Union , 1994 Z117063 1994 anthology poetry Seventeen poets, ranging from the internationally reputed to the previously unpublished, selected their own poems to be included in this anthology. The aim of the POW! Poetry on Wheels project, organized by various groups and venues throughout New South Wales, was to encourage interaction between city and regional poets, poetry groups and their audiences. Sydney : The Poets Union , 1994 pg. 49-50
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    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)

         Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1996     pg. 26
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    y separately published work icon New Selected Poems Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z918005 1998 selected work poetry Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 pg. 163
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    y separately published work icon New Selected Poems Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z918005 1998 selected work poetry New York (City) : Farrar Straus and Giroux , 2000 pg. 167
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    y separately published work icon Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2003 Z1147830 2003 selected work poetry Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2003 pg. 124-125
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Les Murray , 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. 162
Alternative title: Die Wassersaule
First line of verse: "Wir waren dem Steg stromaufwärts gefolgt"
Language: German
Notes:
Correct spelling of title: Die Wassersäule
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