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Leslie Allan Murray AO (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.
Les (Leslie Allan) Murray was considered to be the leading Australian poet of his generation. He grew up in poverty on his grandparents’ farm in Bunyah, New South Wales, a district he moved back to with his own family in 1985.
May 2, 2019 · SYDNEY, Australia — Les Murray, an Australian poet with an international reputation and an extraordinary intellect whose verse ruminated on death, his native bushland and his own turbulent life,...
Feb 28, 2022 · Fiercely oppositional, deeply religious, Les Murray was both a cultural warrior and a fine, passionate, inventive poet. His final poems, published posthumously, express his many sides.
Les Murray was an Australian poet and essayist who in such meditative, lyrical poems as “Noonday Axeman” and “Sydney and the Bush” captured Australia’s psychic and rural landscape as well as its mythic elements.
Apr 29, 2019 · Australian poet Les Murray has died. Craig Sillitoe. Murray was the leading poet of his generation and possibly of this country’s history. His power came from extraordinary poetic technique and a determination to draw for his subject matter on Australia and its past, to which he felt unusually connected by his personal history.
Les Murray (1938 – 2019) grew up the only son of poor farmers in a remote valley in New South Wales. It was a hard background but one that instilled in him a love of the landscape and people of rural Australia which informed his poetry ever since.
Apr 29, 2019 · Australian literature great Les Murray AO has died at the age of 80. Murray - known as the Bard of Bunyah - died peacefully in Taree on NSW's mid-north coast on Monday afternoon, his publicist ...
May 9, 2019 · Australia’s greatest modern poet, a political controversialist, was 80. May 9th 2019. Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. W HEN HE GOT too curious as a baby,...
May 3, 2019 · Unofficial Australian poet laureate. The greatest living writer in Australian literature or the English language. All this and more has been said of Les Murray, who died this week at the age of...
