Les Murray

This article surveys the reception of a German translation (by Thomas Eichhorn, 2004) of Murray’s Fredy Neptune in German-speaking countries. It looks at responses to…

It is hard to think of any major Australian poet, living or dead, whose work has been as overtly political as that of Les Murray…

Malouf discusses recent works of poetry by David Rowbotham, Thomas Shapcott, Rodney Hall, Geoffrey Lehmann, Les Murray and Robert Adamson.

Discusses Murray's collection of poems, The People's Otherworld (1984) and collection fo essays, Persistence in Folly (1984), arguing that Murray's work explores the richness of…

Some of the subtlety of Les A. Murray's poetry is suggested by the way it both invites critical commentary on seemingly straightforward themes and values…

The following is an interview by correspondence. In early June 2004 I sent a questionnaire with eight queries to Thomas Eichhorn, the highly praised German…

Les Murray responds to a survey asking about his approach to war as a subject or vehicle for fiction, the challenges of doing so, the…

Les Murray introduces some of his poems and discusses their inspiration and his process of writing them.

Within the sequence of The Idyll Wheel (1989) Les Murray brought to a close the mythic journey of 'home-coming', which had sustained much of his…

A review essay of Peter Alexander's biography Les Murray: A Life in Progress with reference to broader considerations of biographical writing and the authorial subject.

I intend concentrating on two books. John Tranter's Crying in Early Infancy: One Hundred Sonnets (1977), and Les A. Murray's sonnet-novel The Boys Who Stole…

In almost any of his literary reviews, and in many of his essays, we find Murray distinguishing between good and bad poetry, between what gives…

Don Anderson and Peter Porter in conversation, debating Les Murray's critique of Porter's poem 'On First Looking into Chapman's Hesiod'. The conversation focuses on the…

Discusses the prosody and colloquial narrative tone of Fredy Neptune in the context of the Boeotian tradition which “locates the art of poetry in the…

Amongst contemporary Australian poets there are those whose work can be classed as overtly religious, whose poetry adheres to older, transcendental models of signification, to…

Covers works by and about Murray up to Sepember 2001.

Explores similarities between Murray and Gerard Manley Hopkins particularly in their use of highly visual and evocative language.

The article demonstrates that Murray’s poems “of more than one or two pages but less than fifty or a hundred” have “modes and preoccupations in…

Considers language and metre in Murray’s poetry, examining it in relation to Murray’s concept of “Wholespeak” which requires poetry to “engage us physically, in addition…

Analyses Fredy Neptune within the context of the epic tradition and explores similarities and differences between Murray’s work and the narratives of Derek Walcott, Seamus…