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Collected Poems Les Murray by Les Murray
$59.99 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new and updated Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This magnificent hardback volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree(1965) to Waiting for the Past(2015). In tracing Murray's artis ...Show more
Continuous Creation: Last Poems by by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
The final, posthumous collection of poems from Australia's unofficial poet laureateIn a poetic gift from beyond the grave, Les Murray left a trove of last poems. These are poems he was working on up to his death, as well as work uncovered from his scrapbooks and files. Various, intriguing and moving, th ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog by Les Murray
$24.95 AUD
Category: Health
In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of ...Show more
Killing the Black Dog: Short Black 10 by Les Murray
$6.99 AUD
$11.99 (41% off)
Category: Health | Series: Short Blacks
'On the last day of 1985, I went home to live in Bunyah, the farming valley I had left some twenty-nine years earlier. My wife and our younger children followed two days later ...at last I was going home, to care for my father in his old age and to live in the place from which I'd always felt displaced. ...Show more
On Bunyah by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
oMurray is a brash but also breathtakingly brilliant and often both at onceo -The AustralianBunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illuso ...Show more
On Bunyah by Les Murray
$32.99 AUD
$39.99 (17% off)
Category: Poetry
oMurray is a brash but also breathtakingly brilliant and often both at onceo -The AustralianBunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illuso ...Show more
Selected Poems by Les A. Murray (Editor)
$27.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
This is the first port of call for anyone wanting to experience the poetry of Les Murray. Completely up to date, it contains Murray's finest work (excluding Fredy Neptune), selected by the poet himself. This beautifully designed edition is also the perfect gift for someone wanting an introduction to Aus ...Show more
Taller When Prone by Les Murray
$24.95 AUD
$29.00 (13% off)
Category: Poetry
Taller When Proneis Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The BiplaneHouses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape ...Show more
The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray by Les Murray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
Including classics such as 'The Broad Bean Sermon', 'An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow' and 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever', this is guaranteed to delight Murray fans and introduce new readers to his work. This is a wonderful gift, and a treasure trove of the best poems ever written in Australia.
The World Game According to Les Murray by Les Murray
$39.95 AUD
$44.99 (11% off)
Category: Sport
Les Murray is Australia's most respected expert on Football. In The World (Game) According to Les Murray 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. This is ...Show more
The World Game: The Story of How Football Went Global by Les Murray
$35.00 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: Sport
Les Murray is Australia's most respected expert on football. In The World's Game he draws upon his many years of watching, critiquing and reporting on football around the world and shares his greatest moments. This book will delight readers with its insights and thoughtful exploration of the world of f ...Show more
Waiting for the Past by Les Murray
$24.99 AUD
$30.00 (16% off)
Category: Poetry | Series: Australian
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to 'The Electric, 1960', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled lik ...Show more
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