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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.
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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.
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.
Feb 18, 2019 · Les Murray’s new Collected Poems (there was an earlier one in 2002) has a pleasing symmetry about it: fifty years of work selected from fifteen volumes, 1965-2015, and emerging just as the poet himself turns a round eighty. It runs to 686 pages of poetry, not counting indices of titles and first lines, and weighs in at 1.24 kilos.
Les Murray was an Australian poet and essayist who in such meditative, lyrical poems as “Noonday Axeman” and “Sydney and the Bush” captured Australia’s psychic and rural landscape as well as its mythic elements.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Feb 28, 2022 · Fiercely oppositional, deeply religious, Les Murray was both a cultural warrior and a fine, passionate, inventive poet. His final poems, published posthumously, express his many sides.
Les Murray - Leslie Allan Murray was born October 17, 1938, in Bunyah, New South Wales. He is the author of Waiting for the Past: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016).
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