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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.
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.
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.
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.
Apr 18, 2016 · The Greatest Poet Alive. The feral genius of Australia’s Les Murray. By James Parker. May 2016 Issue. André Carrilho. If you’re a certain kind of reader, with a certain kind of brain, you’re...
Les Murray - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Leslie Allan Murray was born October 17, 1938, in Bunyah, New South Wales.
