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About this Site
I first came across Les Murray in 1996 when Performance
appeared in a British newspaper, and immediately went out and bought
Subhuman Redneck Poems.
I was stuck by the energy and inventiveness evident in all the
poems – and there was something about the humour of poems like Pigs
and Inside Ayers Rock and the bucolic charm
of poems like The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever:
To go home and wear shorts forever
in the enormous paddocks, in that warm climate,
adding a sweater when winter soaks the grass,
to camp out along the river bends
for good, wearing shorts, with a pocketknife,
a fishing line and matches ...
to be walking meditatively
among green timber, through the grassy forest
towards a calm sea
and looking across to more of that great island
and the further tropics.
Though I have tried to keep the pages factual in nature and free
of value judgements, I hope I also manange to convey my enthusiasm
for Les Murray's poetry – and to pursuade you to go out and buy
one or two of his books!
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Thanks are due primarily to the support
and contributions of Les Murray himself (with whom I keep in
regular contact about the site) and Peter Alexander (his biographer).
Any feedback, suggestions, links
or other material would be very welcome. Please email me at
jason@lesmurray.org.
I have made a selection of comments from past visitors (after
asking their permission) on the Visitor
Feedback page.
Very occasionally I have had some bother with the email
forwarding service provided by the host – if you do not receive
an answer (I answer all non-spam emails) please try
my work email address: claphamj@stedwards.oxon.sch.uk.
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I am currently working on a modest re-design of the site, which will make the growing content of this site easier for readers to navigate: Sample Page. Do let me know if you have any comments.
Jason Clapham
Last update: April 2008.
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