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Dog Fox Field single work   poetry   "These were no leaders, but they were first"
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 Dog Fox Field
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  • Epigraph: The test for feeblemindedness was, they had to make up a sentence using the words dog, fox, and field. - Judgement at Nuremberg

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald 31 December 1988 Z601505 1988 newspaper issue 1988 pg. 4
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    y separately published work icon Dog Fox Field : Poems Les Murray , North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 Z54849 1990 selected work poetry North Ryde : Angus and Robertson , 1990 pg. 50
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    y separately published work icon The Penguin Book of Modern Australian Poetry John Tranter (editor), Philip Mead (editor), Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 Z151302 1991 anthology poetry Ringwood : Penguin , 1991 pg. 226-227
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    y separately published work icon Collected Poems Les Murray , Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1994 Z422024 1994 selected work poetry Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1994 pg. 332
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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. 122
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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. 131
  • Appears in:
    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. 98
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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. 119
Alternative title: Hund Fuchs Feld
First line of verse: "Das waren keine Fuhrer, doch sie gingen als erste"
Language: German
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Works about this Work

Language Dreaming : On Translating Les Murray into Danish Martin Leer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 181-194)
Language Dreaming : On Translating Les Murray into Danish Martin Leer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 181-194)
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