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Bright Lights on Earth single work   poetry   "Luminous electric grist"
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Bright Lights on Earth
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Biplane Houses Les Murray , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2006 Z1238808 2006 selected work poetry Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2006 pg. 79
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Quadrant vol. 50 no. 1-2 January-February 2006 Z1247325 2006 periodical issue 2006 pg. 13
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Poetry 2007 John Tranter (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007 Z1423275 2007 anthology poetry (taught in 1 units) St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007 pg. 51
  • Appears in:
    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. 277
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001-2010 Les Murray (editor), Balmain : Quadrant Books , 2012 Z1847370 2012 anthology poetry '"It has been known for decades", Les Murray writes in his introduction to this collection, "that poets who might fear relegation or professional sabotage from the critical consensus of our culture have a welcome and a refuge in Quadrant—but only if they write well."

    From the second decade of his twenty years as literary editor of Quadrant, Les Murray here presents a selection of the best verse he published between 2001 and 2010.

    It is a prodigious body of work: 487 poems by 169 authors.

    These days, he observes, when poetic values are increasingly being seen as real enrichment, readers are turning to the few journals that nurture them:

    "At a time of such turn-about in the life of magazines, a Quadrant anthology seems well overdue."' (Publisher's blurb)
         Balmain : Quadrant Books , 2012     pg. 151
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