The best 100 poems of Les Murray
Murray, Les A. (Les Allan), 1938-2019UUUU
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From his life's work so far, spanning more than four decades, Les Murray has selected these 100 poems, his personal best.
Main title:
The best 100 poems of Les Murray / by Les Murray
Imprint:
Collingwood VIC Black Inc.
Collation:
113 pages
Contents:
Driving through sawmill towns -- An absolutely ordinary rainbow -- Kiss of the whip -- The broad bean sermon -- The Mitchells -- Employment for the castes in abeyance -- The Buladelah-Taree holiday song cycle -- The future -- The fishermen at South Head -- Quintets for Robert Morley -- Two poems in memory of my mother, Miriam Murray nee Arnall -- Machine portraits with pendant spaceman -- Shower -- Time travel -- Louvres -- Flood plains on the coast facing Asia -- Roman cage-cups -- Nocturne -- The dream of wearing shorts forever -- Poetry and religion -- July: midwinter haircut -- Cave divers near Mount Gambier -- The ballad of the barbed wire ocean -- The tin wash dish -- Bats' ultrasound -- Lyrebird -- Cattle ancestor -- The octave of elephants -- The cows on killing day -- Spermaceti -- The wedding at Berrico -- Dead trees in the dam -- Late summer fires -- Corniche -- Like wheeling stacked water -- It allows a portrait in line scan at fifteen -- The shield-scales of heraldry -- Burning want -- The last hellos -- Cotton flannelette -- The Harleys -- Dreambabwe -- The instrument -- A deployment of fashions -- A postcard -- Downhill on borrowed skis -- Sound bites -- The images alone -- Rooms of the sketch-garden -- Oasis city -- The moon man -- Visitor -- Clothing as dwelling as shouldered boat -- Jellyfish -- A countryman -- In a time of cuisine -- The climax of factory farming -- The poisons of right and left -- To one outside the culture -- The meaning of existence -- The hanging gardens -- The averted -- Percepts -- Travelling the British roads -- For an eightieth birthday -- Black belt in marital arts -- A levitation of land -- On the North Coast Line -- The nostril songs -- Death from exposure -- Me and je reviens -- Pressure -- Church -- Pastoral sketch -- Birthplace -- Panic attack -- Ripe in the arbours of the nose -- From a tourist journal -- The conversations -- As country was slow -- Midi -- Observing the mute cat -- Nursing home -- Fame -- Cattle-hoof hardpan -- Phone canvass -- Brown suits -- Eucalypts in exile -- Cherries from Young -- High-speed bird -- The farm terraces -- Rugby wheels -- Hesiod on bushfire -- Port Jackson greaseproof rose -- The blame -- The mirrorball -- Infinite anthology -- Manuscript roundel -- Natal grass
ISBN:
9781863955843 (hardback)
Dewey class:
AUST821.3 BES
Local class:
AUST821.3
Language:
English
BRN:
50315
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | Nonfiction | AUST821.3 BES | hbkAvailable |