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y Quadrant vol. 26 no. 12 December 1982 Z611056 1982 periodical issue 1982
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1982
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pg. 44-53
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y Persistence in Folly Les Murray , Sydney : Sirius Books , 1984 Z428053 1984 selected work review prose essay autobiography Abstract Collection of previously published articles and reviews written between 1977 and 1982 which Murray himself wishes to preserve. In his preface Murray states : "With very few exceptions, the articles are presented in the order in which I wrote them. Emendations have included the restoration of my original titles for some of the pieces, and also the restoration, sometimes from rough memory, of bits cut out by editors." Sydney : Sirius Books , 1984
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1984
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pg. 149-167
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y The Paperbark Tree : Selected Prose Les Murray , Manchester : Carcanet , 1992 Z450565 1992 selected work prose criticism biography Manchester : Carcanet , 1992
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1992
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pg. 163-183
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y A Working Forest : Selected Prose Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1997 Z536744 1997 selected work prose autobiography review column criticism obituary Abstract This selection consists of essays and reviews from The Australian Year, Doubletake, three earlier prose selections - The Peasant Mandarin, Persistence in Folly and Blocks and Tackles - and some previously uncollected work. Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1997
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1997
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pg. 148-166
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y The Quality of Sprawl : Thoughts about Australia Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1999 Z570816 1999 selected work prose autobiography criticism essay Abstract This selection consists of essays and reviews from A Working Forest, together with some previously uncollected work, providing an insight into Murray's thoughts about Australia's history and Australian attitudes to clothes, religion, the republican issue, Australian customs and the bush. Longer essays listed here are interspersed with short pieces which Murray wrote for his column 'Our Man in Bunyah' which ran in the Independent Monthly between 1993-1996, and which appear together in A Working Forest. Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1999
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1999
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pg. 177-208