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  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 In a Working Forest
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    y separately published work icon Blocks and Tackles : Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990 Les Murray , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z54637 1990 selected work prose review autobiography criticism essay North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 pg. 212-233
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    y separately published work icon Gone Bush Roger McDonald (editor), Moorebank : Bantam Books , 1990 Z115658 1990 anthology prose autobiography 'Twelve of Australia's most celebrated authors each write on a part of the country that holds special meaning for them. The writing is complemented by the black and white photography of award winner Nicholas Adler.' Source: Libraries Australia. Moorebank : Bantam Books , 1990 pg. 29-47
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    y separately published work icon The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose Les Murray , Manchester : Carcanet , 1992 Z450565 1992 selected work prose criticism biography Manchester : Carcanet , 1992 pg. 372-390
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    y separately published work icon The Independent Monthly vol. 5 no. 1 July 1993 Z610620 1993 periodical issue 1993 pg. 24-26,28-30,32
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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. 57-73
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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. 91-120
Alternative title: In una Foresta che Lavora
Language: Italian
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