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Les Murray was a leading Australian poet who wrote about the history and landscape of Australia, white settlers, indigenous life, family, and the rural landscape. He won the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Grace Levin Prize, and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and died in 2019 at the age of 80.
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.
Leslie Allan Murray, mais conhecido como Les Murray (Nabiac, Nova Gales do Sul, 17 de outubro de 1938 – 29 de abril de 2019) foi um poeta, antologista e crítico australiano. Sua carreira começou nos anos quarenta, e publicou cerca de 30 volumes de poesia, bem como dois romances em prosa.
30 de abr. de 2019 · Guardian books. Mon 29 Apr 2019 03.09 EDT. Les Murray, a distinguished figure of Australian letters, has died at the age of 80 on Monday after a long illness. One of Australia’s most successful...
25 de abr. de 2024 · Les Murray (born October 17, 1938, Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia—died April 29, 2019, Taree, New South Wales) 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.
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Biography. 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.
28 de fev. de 2022 · A review of Continuous Creation, the posthumous book of Les Murray's final poems. The reviewer explores the poet's themes of history, memory, creation, nature, humour and mortality in his late work.
