The Weatherboard Cathedral

Name: The Weatherboard Cathedral
Author: Les Murray

by Les Murray

Poetry elevating the sacred in ordinary Australian places

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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
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