Les Murry biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of Les Murry

Author Name:

Les Murry

Born As:

Leslie Allan Murray

Other Names:

Born:

17 Oct 1938

Died:





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Selected Works:

1965: The Ilex Tree - with Geoffrey Lehmann
1969: The Weatherboard Cathedral
1972: Poems Against Economics
1974: Lunch and Counter Lunch
1976: Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic 
1977: Ethnic Radio
1982: Equanimities
1982: The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961–1981- 1982 and enlarged and revised edition - 1988
1983: Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn
1983: The People's Otherworld
1986: Selected Poems
1987: The Daylight Moon  -1987 - 1988
1994: Collected Poems
1989: The Idyll Wheel
1990: Dog Fox Field Sydney - 1990 - 1991 and 1993
1991: Collected Poems - 1991 - 1991 - 1992, released as The Rabbiter's Bounty, Collected Poems - 1991
1992: Translations from the Natural World
1994: Collected Poems
1996: Late Summer Fires
1996: Selected Poems
1996: Subhuman Redneck Poems
1997: Killing the Black Dog
1999: New Selected Poems
1999: Conscious and Verbal
2000: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
2000: Learning Human, Selected Poems - also published as Learning Human, New Selected Poems - 2001
2002: Poems the Size of Photographs
2002: New Collected Poems - 2003
2007: The Biplane Houses Macmillan
2010: Taller When Prone
2011: Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression Farrar -autobiographical

Collections as Editor:

1986: Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry -  M - 1986, new edition, 1991
1991: The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, - 1986 - 1991 and 1999
1994: Fivefathers, Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era
2005: Hell and After, Four early English-language poets of Australia 
2005: Best Australian Poems 2004

Verse Novels:

1979: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral - 1979, 1980 and 1989
1999: Fredy Neptune

Prose Collections:

1978: The Peasant Mandarin, St. Lucia
1984: Persistence in Folly: Selected Prose Writings 
1984: The Australian Year: The Chronicle of our Seasons and Celebrations
1990: Blocks and Tackles
1992: The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose, - 1993
1999: The Quality of Sprawl: Thoughts about Australia
2000: A Working Forest - Essays
2002: The Full Dress, An Encounter with the National Gallery of Australia                          
                          
                          
Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Murray_(poet)