On the Present Slaughter of Feral Animals single work   poetry   "It seems that merciless human rearrangement"
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1993... 1993 On the Present Slaughter of Feral Animals
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    y separately published work icon The Canberra Times 5 December 1993 Z601877 1993 newspaper issue 1993 pg. 19
  • Appears in:
    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. 41-42
  • Appears in:
    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. 164
Alternative title: Uber das gegenwartige Abschlachten verwilderter Tiere
First line of verse: "Es scheint, dass die gnadenlose menschliche Umordnung"
Language: German
Notes:
Correct spelling of title: Über das gegenwärtige Abschlachten verwilderter Tiere
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Works about this Work

Grandfather Grandmother Sing Sweet Tune Peter Read , 2004 extract criticism (Voices in the River : The Poetry of Belonging)
— Appears in: Ngara : Living in This Place Now 2004; (p. 133-150)
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