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Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 1997
winner y
The Blue Cloud of Crying
Sydney
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Hale and Iremonger
,
1997
Z197117
1997
selected work
poetry
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Year: 1996
winner y
Things Happen
Pymble
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Angus and Robertson
,
1995
Z315489
1995
selected work
poetry
humour
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Year: 1995
joint winner y
Coming Home from the World
Wollongong
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Five Islands Press
Scarp Productions
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1994
Z189465
1994
selected work
poetry
joint winner y
The Monkey's Mask
South Melbourne
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Hyland House
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1994
Z528794
1994
single work
novel
crime
(taught in 31 units)
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Year: 1994
winner y
Peninsula
South Fremantle
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Fremantle Press
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1994
Z392162
1994
selected work
poetry
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Year: 1993
winner y
Translations from the Natural World
Paddington
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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)
Works About this Award
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Author Takes Big Step in the Right Direction 1997 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 26 September 1997; (p. A8) -
Translating the Word in the World of Poetry 1993 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 November 1993; (p. 4) -
Book Notes [8 September 1990] 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8 September 1990; (p. 77)
