Australia's greatest and best-loved poet, Les Murray (1938-2019) was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at the nomination of Ted Hughes (1999) and won the T. S. Eliot Award among many other distinctions. He is a poet of deep environmental comm...

"Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family a...

The clearly-focussed lyrics of Les Murray's "Waiting for the Past" are rich in topographies and the languages peculiar to them – wonga vines, lyre birds, gum trees, shrike thrushes, tallow boughs, boab trees, the octopus in Wylies Baths killed by ste...

"New Selected Poems" contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from "Taller When Prone" (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today...

"Taller When Prone" has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them. Stories and songs, fragm...

In his first new volume of poems since "Poems the Size of Photographs" (2002), Les Murray celebrates the grace and variousness of the world with an unfailing abundance of imagination and linguistic energy. Here is a poet writing at the height of his...

The first metropolis to be depicted in Australian literature was Hell: before cities existed in Australia, Francis McNamara, the convict poet, described the infernal one populated by those who tormented him and his fellow prisoners. Sentenced in 1832...

The lyric and satirical muses have kept busy with Les Murray. "Subhuman Redneck Poems", awarded the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, Dog Fox Field (1991), "Translations from the Natural World" (1993) and "Conscious and Verbal" (1999) are added to his expanded...

Poems "The Size of Photographs" is the latest collection of brief, humorous and insightful poems from the prize-winning Australian poet, Les Murray. This accessible and beautiful book will appeal to both occasional and dedicated poetry readers.

Derek Walcott celebrates Les Murray in these terms: "There is no poetry in the English language so rooted in its sacred-ness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational". Fifteen years ago Carcanet published Les Murray...