The Vernacular Republic

Name: The Vernacular Republic
Author: Les Murray

by Les Murray

Essays and prose defending vernacular poetry and Australian identity

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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.

More by Les Murray

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
Subhuman Redneck PoemsPoems celebrating working-class and rural Australian life