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Leslie Allan Murray AO (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.
Les Murray. 1938–2019. Photo by Peter Solness. Les (Leslie Allan) Murray was considered to be the leading Australian poet of his generation. He grew up in poverty on his grandparents’ farm in Bunyah, New South Wales, a district he moved back to with his own family in 1985.
Apr 25, 2024 · In full: Leslie Allan Murray. Born: October 17, 1938, Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia. Died: April 29, 2019, Taree, New South Wales (aged 80) Notable Works: “A Working Forest” “Dog Fox Field” “Ethnic Radio” “Fredy Neptune” “Learning Human, Selected Poems” “Peasant Mandarin” “Poems the Size of Photographs” “Subhuman Redneck Poems”
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Poets. Biography. Les Murray (1938 – 2019) grew up the only son of poor farmers in a remote valley in New South Wales. It was a hard background but one that instilled in him a love of the landscape and people of rural Australia which informed his poetry ever since.
Murray was the editor of Poetry Australia and of Quadrant Magazine. During his career, he gave readings, lectures, and talks in Australia, Britain, Europe, and the United States. Murray died on April 29, 2019. Les Murray - Leslie Allan Murray was born October 17, 1938, in Bunyah, New South Wales.
Apr 30, 2019 · Guardian books. Mon 29 Apr 2019 03.09 EDT. Les Murray, a distinguished figure of Australian letters, has died at the age of 80 on Monday after a long illness. One of Australia’s most successful...
May 1, 2019 · On Monday, the poet Les Murray, one of Australia’s “national living treasures,” died, at the age of eighty. The author of nearly forty books, including poetry, novels in verse, and essay ...
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