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  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Collected Poems
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    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Farrar Straus and Giroux ,
      1991 .
      Alternative title: The Rabbiter's Bounty : collected poems
      Extent: xii, 321p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Contents as for Australian edition; page numbers vary.
      ISBN: 0374126224
    • Manchester,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Carcanet ,
      1991 .
      Extent: xii, 319p.
      ISBN: 0856359238
    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Minerva ,
      1992 .
      Extent: 318p.
      ISBN: 0749398590

Works about this Work

Last Letter to Les Murray i "Les, I’m writing to you", Dennis Haskell , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 63 no. 6 2019; (p. 39)
[Essay] : Murray: Collected Poems Felicity Plunkett , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;

'Edward Hirsch begins his beautiful How to Read a Poem (Harcourt Brace, 1999) in Celan’s heartland. Imagine yourself on the shore, he writes, foraging among ‘seaweed and rotten wood, the crushed cans and dead fish’, finding an ‘unlikely looking bottle from the past’. The message inside has been making its way towards someone for a long time, and now ‘that someone turns out to be you’. He quotes ‘On the Interlocutor’, Osip Mandelstam’s 1913 essay about a similar wave-dumped poem: ‘The message in the bottle was addressed to its finder. I found it. That means, I have become its secret addressee.’ Poems, for Mandelstam, are composed for ‘a reader in posterity’; for Celan, perhaps for a reader he refers to as the ‘addressable thou’.' (Introduction)

Contemporary Poetry and the Sacred Lyn McCredden , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 23 no. 2 2007; (p. 153-167)
The Dark and Light of the Daylight Moon : The Poetry of Les Murray Peter Filkins , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: New England Review , vol. 15 no. 3 1993; (p. 197-207)

A detailed critical analysis of two of Les Murray's collections.

Going to the Cause Giles Foden , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 29 May no. 4652 1992; (p. 24)

— Review of Collected Poems Les Murray , 1991 selected work poetry
Hiccups in the Clockwork of Poetry Christopher Pollnitz , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 July 1991; (p. 8)

— Review of Blocks and Tackles : Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990 Les Murray , 1990 selected work prose review autobiography criticism essay ; Collected Poems Les Murray , 1991 selected work poetry ; Dog Fox Field : Poems Les Murray , 1990 selected work poetry
How Poetry is Packaged Philip Mead , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Society , August vol. 10 no. 8 1991; (p. 40-42)

— Review of Confessions of a Corinthian : Poems Julian Croft , 1991 selected work poetry ; The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse 1991 anthology poetry ; Beauty Is the Straw : Poems Amy Witting , 1991 selected work poetry ; Selected Poems Dorothy Hewett , 1991 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems Les Murray , 1991 selected work poetry
[Review] Poetry 1991 David Kelly , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: OzMuze , October vol. 1 no. 13 1991; (p. 9-10)

— Review of Collected Poems Rosemary Dobson , 1991 selected work poetry drama ; Rain at Gunn Point : Poems of Tony Scanlon Tony Scanlon , 1990 selected work poetry ; Malabata Grant Caldwell , 1991 single work autobiography novel ; Falling up into Verse : (A Poetic Treatise or Handbook [Survival Manual] for Live Poets, Aspiring Poets, and Students of Poetry, Down Under) Edwin Wilson , 1989 single work criticism ; The Rose Garden : A Selection of Poems Edwin Wilson , 1991 selected work poetry ; Collected Poems Les Murray , 1991 selected work poetry ; Orpheus A. D. Hope , 1991 selected work poetry
A World Where Full Being Can be Recovered Alan Gould , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 28 September 1991; (p. C8)

— Review of Collected Poems Les Murray , 1991 selected work poetry ; New and Selected Poems 1960-1990 Bruce Beaver , 1991 selected work poetry biography
Advice for the New Nineties Julian Symons , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: London Review of Books , 12 March vol. 14 no. 5 1992; (p. 27)

— Review of Collected Poems Les Murray , 1991 selected work poetry
Contemporary Poetry and the Sacred Lyn McCredden , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 23 no. 2 2007; (p. 153-167)
After Poetry (11) : A Quarterly Account of Recent Poetry Kevin Hart , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 125 1991; (p. 61-67)
The Dark and Light of the Daylight Moon : The Poetry of Les Murray Peter Filkins , 1993 single work criticism
— Appears in: New England Review , vol. 15 no. 3 1993; (p. 197-207)

A detailed critical analysis of two of Les Murray's collections.

[Essay] : Murray: Collected Poems Felicity Plunkett , 2013 single work essay
— Appears in: Reading Australia 2013-;

'Edward Hirsch begins his beautiful How to Read a Poem (Harcourt Brace, 1999) in Celan’s heartland. Imagine yourself on the shore, he writes, foraging among ‘seaweed and rotten wood, the crushed cans and dead fish’, finding an ‘unlikely looking bottle from the past’. The message inside has been making its way towards someone for a long time, and now ‘that someone turns out to be you’. He quotes ‘On the Interlocutor’, Osip Mandelstam’s 1913 essay about a similar wave-dumped poem: ‘The message in the bottle was addressed to its finder. I found it. That means, I have become its secret addressee.’ Poems, for Mandelstam, are composed for ‘a reader in posterity’; for Celan, perhaps for a reader he refers to as the ‘addressable thou’.' (Introduction)

Last Letter to Les Murray i "Les, I’m writing to you", Dennis Haskell , 2019 single work poetry
— Appears in: Quadrant , June vol. 63 no. 6 2019; (p. 39)
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