y separately published work icon Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray selected work   poetry  
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 2003... 2003 Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray
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Notes

  • 'This selection comprises what Les Murray considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all of his collections up to and including Poems the Size of Photographs, but not including his two verse novels.' (From back cover of Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray.)
  • Includes two previously uncollected poems 'The Dark' and 'The Averted'

Contents

* Contents derived from the Potts Point, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,:Duffy and Snellgrove , 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
The Burning Trucki"It began at dawn with fighter planes:", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 1)
Driving Through Sawmill Townsi"In the high cool country,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbowi"The word goes round Repins, the murmur goes round Lorenzinis,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 3-5)
Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfili"The first night of my second voyage to Wales,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 5-6)
Incorrigible Gracei"Saint Vincent de Paul, old friend,", Les Murray , single work poetry humour (p. 6)
The Pure Food Acti"Night, as I go into the place of cattle.", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 7-8)
"Einmal reitest du auf dem Weltenpferd" Jozsefi"You ride on the world-horse once", Les Murray , Margitt Lehbert (translator) single work poetry (p. 8-10)
Kiss of the Whipi"In Cardiff, off Saint Mary's Street", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 10-11)
The Broad Bean Sermoni"Beanstalks, in any breeze, are a slack church parade", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 12)
Rock Musici"Sex is a Nazi. The students all knew", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 12--121)
The Powerline Incarnationi"When I ran to snatch the wires off our roof", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 13-14)
Creeper Habiti"On Bennelong Point", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 15)
Employment for the Castes in Abeyancei"I was a translator at the Institute:", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 15-17)
The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cyclei"The people are eating dinner in that country north of Legge's Lake;", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 17-26)
The Gum Foresti"After the last gapped wire on a post,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 26-27)
Rainwater Tanki"Empty rings when tapped give tongue", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 27-28)
The Futurei"There is nothing about it. Much science fiction is set there", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 28-29)
Immigrant Voyagei"My wife came out on the Goya", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 29-33)
Homage to the Launching-Placei"Pleasure-craft of the sprung rhythms, bed,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 33-34)
First Essay on Interesti"Not usury, but interest. The cup slowed in mid-raise,", Les Murray , single work poetry (p. 34-36)
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