Mollusc single work   poetry   "By its nobship sailing upside down,"
Is part of Presence : Translations from the Natural World Les Murray , 1992 sequence poetry
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Mollusc
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    y separately published work icon The Paris Review no. 117 1990 Z606717 1990 periodical issue 1990 pg. 218
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    y separately published work icon Southern Review vol. 23 no. 3 November 1990 Z606883 1990 periodical issue 1990 pg. 271
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    y separately published work icon The Adelaide Review no. 86 March 1991 Z606719 1991 periodical issue 1991 pg. 22
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    y separately published work icon Translations from the Natural World Les Murray , Paddington : Isabella Press , 1992 Z208589 1992 selected work poetry Translations from the Natural World, Les Murray's new collection of poems, is, like all his work, rich in inventiveness, perception, and a rare delight in the mimetic powers of language. Its centerpiece is 'Presence', a sequence of forty 'translations from the natural world' about a variety of natural settings and their amazing denizens. Lyre birds, honeycombs, sea lions, cuttlefish, and possums all act as spurs to Murray's protean talents for description and imitation. As Lachlan MacKinnon wrote in The Times Literary Supplement, 'These poems, a grand tour of the given, are a great hymn to the particularities in which God's creative generosity is expressed, and they will be widely enjoyed and admired. Their technical and linguistic largesse confirms . . . that Les Murray is one of the very finest poets in whom the English language is now at work.' (Libraries Australia) Paddington : Isabella Press , 1992 pg. 26
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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Review no. 45 August 1992 Z606721 1992 newspaper issue 1992 pg. 10
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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 37 no. 2 Winter 1992 Z606905 1992 periodical issue 1992 pg. 56
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    y separately published work icon Nimrod : International Journal of Prose and Poetry vol. 36 no. 2 Spring/Summer Francine Ringold (editor), Manly Johnson (editor), Tulsa : Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa , 1993 Z600325 1993 periodical issue Australia Tulsa : Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa , 1993 pg. 142
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    y separately published work icon Collected Poems Les Murray , Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1994 Z422024 1994 selected work poetry Port Melbourne : Heinemann Australia , 1994 pg. 378
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    y separately published work icon Ein ganz gewohnlicher Regenbogen : Gedichte Les Murray , Munich Vienna : Carl Hanser , 1996 Z912080 1996 selected work poetry Munich Vienna : Carl Hanser , 1996 pg. 128
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    y separately published work icon New Selected Poems Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z918005 1998 selected work poetry Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 pg. 143
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    y separately published work icon New Selected Poems Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z918005 1998 selected work poetry New York (City) : Farrar Straus and Giroux , 2000 pg. 150
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    y separately published work icon The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry : Volume 2 Jahan Ramazani (editor), Richard Ellmann (editor), Robert O'Clair (editor), New York (City) : W. W. Norton , 2003 Z1109657 2003 anthology poetry New York (City) : W. W. Norton , 2003 pg. 718
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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. 111
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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. 137
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    y separately published work icon Editor's Desk - 2020 2020 28725851 2020 periodical issue review 2020
Alternative title: Die Molluske
First line of verse: "An dem Hauptschiff, das kopfuber segelt,"
Language: German
Notes:
English and German texts on facing pages.
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Works about this Work

Language Dreaming : On Translating Les Murray into Danish Martin Leer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 181-194)
Language Dreaming : On Translating Les Murray into Danish Martin Leer , 2003 single work criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 1 2003; (p. 181-194)
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