Rock Music single work   poetry   "Sex is a Nazi. The students all knew"
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Rock Music
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    y separately published work icon The Adelaide Review no. 105 August 1992 Z614412 1992 periodical issue 1992 pg. 24
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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Review no. 44 July 1992 Z637662 1992 newspaper issue 1992 pg. 10
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    y separately published work icon The Times Literary Supplement TLS no. 4656 26 June 1992 Z637702 1992 periodical issue 1992 pg. 11
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    y separately published work icon The Zone : An Assemblage of Contemporary Writings L. L. James (editor), Ainslie Girdwood (editor), Nigel Spence (editor), Armidale : Kangaroo Magazine and the University of New England, Armidale Students' Association , 1994 Z254911 1994 anthology short story poetry extract Armidale : Kangaroo Magazine and the University of New England, Armidale Students' Association , 1994
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    y separately published work icon Subhuman Redneck Poems Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1996 Z175001 1996 selected work poetry (taught in 1 units)

    'In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in all of us.'  (Publication summary)

    Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1996
    pg. 19
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    y separately published work icon Killing the Black Dog : Essay and Poems Les Murray , Leichhardt : Federation Press , 1997 Z483382 1997 selected work poetry prose

    'Killing the Black Dog is Les Murray's courageous account of his struggle with depression, accompanied by poems specially selected by the author. Since the first edition appeared in 1997, hosts of readers have drawn insight from his account of the disease, its social effects and its origins in his family's history.

    'As Murray writes in this revised and updated edition, the title was premature. He had mistaken a remission for a cure, and thought himself freed from the severe depressive illness which had twice invaded his life. Now, in a new afterword, he describes a relapse, but also shares some of the fruits of his further contemplation. He shows gratitude for help previously unacknowledged, and describes how patches of daylight now balance out those of darkness in his life. A further half dozen poems have been added, reflecting a more complex understanding of depression and its role in the lives of its sufferers.' (From Black Inc.'s website, abstract for the revised edition.)

    Leichhardt : Federation Press , 1997
    pg. 33
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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald 19-20 July 2003 Z1051912 2003 newspaper issue 2003 pg. 17 Section: Spectrum
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    y separately published work icon The Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets Geoff Page (editor), Charnwood : Indigo , 2003 Z1079824 2003 anthology poetry extract A selection of almost two hundred sonnets written by Australians between 1945-2003. Charnwood : Indigo , 2003 pg. 46
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    y separately published work icon Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2003 Z1147830 2003 selected work poetry Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 2003 pg. 12--121
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    y separately published work icon Selected Poems Les Murray , Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2007 Z1434567 2007 selected work poetry (taught in 2 units) 'Selected Poems ... comprises what Murray himself considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all his collections up to and including The Biplane Houses but not including his two verse novels.' (Publisher's blurb) Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2007 pg. 156
Alternative title: Rockmusik
First line of verse: "Sex ist ein Nazi. Wo du zur Schule gehst,"
Language: German

Works about this Work

The Pre-Nobel Poet : Drawing Les Murray Reading W. H. Chong , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Crikey , July 2013;
'Les Murray — Our Greatest Poet and perennial Nobel candidate — wrote a book called ‘Killing the Black Dog’ about his debilitating depression, but he was very cheerful in his bookshop appearance, where he gave four poems their world premiere.'
The Pre-Nobel Poet : Drawing Les Murray Reading W. H. Chong , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: Crikey , July 2013;
'Les Murray — Our Greatest Poet and perennial Nobel candidate — wrote a book called ‘Killing the Black Dog’ about his debilitating depression, but he was very cheerful in his bookshop appearance, where he gave four poems their world premiere.'
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