Les Murray
Australia's most celebrated poet, whose verse celebrated the rural Australian landscape and the lives of ordinary Australians with immense lyrical and intellectual energy. He is considered the unofficial poet laureate of Australia.
Works
- The Ilex TreeAustralian rural poetry celebrating vernacular speech and landscape
- The Weatherboard CathedralPoetry elevating the sacred in ordinary Australian places
- Poems Against EconomicsPoems critiquing economic systems from a pastoral perspective
- The People's OtherworldVisionary collection drawing on Aboriginal spirituality and myth
- Collected PoemsComprehensive selection spanning decades of Murray's poetic innovation
- The Vernacular RepublicEssays and prose defending vernacular poetry and Australian identity
- Subhuman Redneck PoemsPoems celebrating working-class and rural Australian life
- Translations from the Natural WorldPoems using observation of nature as translation into language
- Fredy NeptuneNarrative poem following a man's travels during World War II and after
- Learning HumanPoems about growth, knowledge, and becoming human through experience
- New Selected PoemsSelected poems representing Murray's major themes and innovations
- The Daylight MoonCollection exploring night, darkness, and dreams as spiritual terrain