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Waiting for the Past: Poems

By Les Murray

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Hardcover:

9780374285920 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 5, 2016, cover price $24.00

Paperback:

9780374536879 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 4, 2017, cover price $13.00

The Tin Wash Dish

Product Description: This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is "Poetry and Conflict". 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Poetry Nights...read more

By Les Murray

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9789629967239 | Chinese Univ Pr, February 15, 2016, cover price $5.00 | About this edition: This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights.

Waiting for the Past

By Les Murray

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9781784101169 | Carcanet Pr, December 30, 2016, cover price $14.99

New Selected Poems

Product Description: A fresh selection of the finest poems some previously uncollected by one of our finest English-language poets"Why write poetry? For the weird unemployment.""""For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strike""""down along your writing arm at the accumulated moment...read more

By Les Murray

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9780374220884 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 12, 2014, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A fresh selection of the finest poemsâsome previously uncollectedâby one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry?

Paperback:

9780374535414 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 4, 2015), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A fresh selection of the finest poems some previously uncollected by one of our finest English-language poets"Why write poetry?

Les Murray New and Selected Poems

Product Description: Spanning four decades of poetry, this indispensable collection features the work of Australiaâs Les Murray. Endlessly inventive, these poems celebrate the world and the power of the imagination while clearly expressing the poetâs devotion to place, politics, and the significance of the Australian landscape...read more

By Les Murray

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9781847771674 | Carcanet Pr, May 1, 2012, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Spanning four decades of poetry, this indispensable collection features the work of Australiaâs Les Murray.

Taller When Prone: Poems

Product Description: "Les Murray has earned his reputation not only as one of Australia's finest writers but as one of the most engaging poets writing in English today." âKate Kellaway, The Observer (London) Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since The Biplane Houses, published in 2007...read more

By Les Murray

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9780374533083 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 28, 2012), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: "Les Murray has earned his reputation not only as one of Australia's finest writers but as one of the most engaging poets writing in English today.

The World Game: The Story of How Football Went Global

Product Description: Les Murray is Australiaâs most respected expert on Football. In The Worldâs Game he draws upon his many years of watching, critiquing, and reporting on football around the world and shares his greatest moments. An entertaining writer, his books are widely read and enjoyed...read more

By Les Murray

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9781740668897 | Hardie Grant Books, June 1, 2011, cover price $32.95 | About this edition: Les Murray is Australiaâs most respected expert on Football.

The Biplane Houses: Poems

Product Description: This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collectionânamed for a kind of house distinctive to Murray's native Australiaâexhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style, or genre: there are story poems, puns extended to poem length, historyâand myths in miniature, aphoristic fragments, and domestic portraits...read more

By Les Murray

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9780374531287 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 5, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002.

Hell And After: Four Early English-Language Poets of Australia

The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who tormented him and his fellow prisoners. This book contains extended selections from the work of four writers from the convict era.

By Mary Gilmore, Lesbia Harford, Francis McNamara, Les Murray (editor) and John Shaw Neilson

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9781857547856 | Carcanet Pr, January 31, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who tormented him and his fellow prisoners.

Best Australian Poems 2004

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By Les Murray (editor)

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9781863952057 | Black Inc, June 30, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Book by

Poems the Size of Photographs

A collection of shorter poems by the award-winning Australian poet considers such topics as Australia's people, politics, and landscape, as well as its history, myths, and symbolism. Reprint.

By Les Murray

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9780374235208 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2003, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: A collection by the award-winning Australian poet considers such topics as Australia's people, politics, and landscape as well as its history, myths, and symbolism.

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9780374528812 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 2004), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A collection of shorter poems by the award-winning Australian poet considers such topics as Australia's people, politics, and landscape, as well as its history, myths, and symbolism.

Conscious and Verbal

Sixty-five poems written in the aftermath of the poet's brush with death capture the beauty and dream-like connections of the waking world. Reprint.

By Les Murray

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9780374128821 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 2001, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Sixty-five poems written in the aftermath of the poet's brush with death capture the beauty and dream-like connections of the waking world.

Paperback:

9780374528607 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 2002), cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Sixty-five poems written in the aftermath of the poet's brush with death capture the beauty and dream-like connections of the waking world.

Learning Human: Selected Poems

A collection of works by the poet Joseph Brodsky called 'the one by whom the language lives' includes the best poems from Les Murray's collections The Ilex Tree, The Weatherboard Cathedral, Poems Against Economics, Lunch and Counter Lunch, The Daylight Moon, and others. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Les Murray

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9780374260736 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, January 1, 2000, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of poems, written since 1965, that the author considers to be his best work.

Paperback:

9780374527235 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 2001, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A collection of works by the poet Joseph Brodsky called 'the one by whom the language lives' includes the best poems from Les Murray's collections The Ilex Tree, The Weatherboard Cathedral, Poems Against Economics, Lunch and Counter Lunch, The Daylight Moon, and others.

Australia, Australia, antologia poetica / Australia, Australia, Poetic Anthology

By Les Murray

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9788426428219 | Lumen Editorial, June 30, 2000, cover price $18.95

Subhuman Redneck Poems

Chosen the winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize for the best book of poetry written in English in 1996, an inventive collection of honest, perceptive poems exposes the humanness that exists in all of us. Reprint.

By Les Murray

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9780374271558 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, July 1, 1997, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Explores the world of characters such as farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and sugar mill workers

Paperback:

9780374525385 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1998), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of poems that expose the humanness that exists in everyone, including 'The Family Farmers' Victory,' 'The Sand Coast Sonnets,' and 'The Fossil Imprint'

Translations from the Natural World: Poems

Poems consider the myriad forms of nature, the role of humans, and the generosity of the world

By Les Murray

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9780374278700 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1994, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Poems consider the myriad forms of nature, the role of humans, and the generosity of the world

The Boys Who Stole the Funeral: A Novel Sequence

A sequence of sonnets recounts the story of two young men who steal their friend's body from a city undertaker so that he can be buried at his home in rural Australia

By Les Murray

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9780374116033 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1992, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A sequence of sonnets recounts the story of two young men who steal their friend's body from a city undertaker so that he can be buried at his home in rural Australia

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