'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) and On Bunyah (2016). In tracing Murray’s artistic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Dedication: To the glory of God.
'A seven-hundred-page Collected Poems? The cover photograph of the Big Bloke himself is an embodiment of what’s inside in all its sprawling abundance. As is his surname, which can’t help but invoke our country’s big river, whether in full flood, or slow trickle, or slow spreading billabongs.' (Introduction)
'Les Murray has always been a sort of enigmatic double-headed eagle: one profiled eye looking into the past, the other staring into the future.' (Introduction)
'Les Murray has always been a sort of enigmatic double-headed eagle: one profiled eye looking into the past, the other staring into the future.' (Introduction)
'A seven-hundred-page Collected Poems? The cover photograph of the Big Bloke himself is an embodiment of what’s inside in all its sprawling abundance. As is his surname, which can’t help but invoke our country’s big river, whether in full flood, or slow trickle, or slow spreading billabongs.' (Introduction)
