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The other pages are categorised according to whether they contain Les Murray's poetry, his writing about poetry, information about his life, criticism written about Les Murray's work or links to other sites.

POETRY

Showcase of Shorter Poems
- Performance
- Late Summer Fires
- Pigs
- Comete
- The Harleys
- The Sleepout [MP3 audio]
- Bat's Ultrasound
- Cockspur Bush
- The Mitchells
- Inside Ayers Rock
- On Home Beaches
- Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn
- The Meaning of Existence
- The Mowed Hollow
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow [MP3 audio]
- Amanda's Painting
- More Poems
Download the Showcase for Printing (PDF)

Two Extracts from Fredy Neptune
- First Sighting of the Los Angeles
- Iron Rees

Recent Poems
- The Shining Slopes and Planes
- Through the Lattice Door
- The House Left in English
- The Hanging Gardens
- On the North Coast Line

The Full Dress
- The Aboriginal Cricketer
- Cattle Ancestor
- Echidna
- A Study of the Nude
- The Tin Wash Dish
- Two Rains
- Worker Knowledge
- Under the Banana Mountains
- From Fredy Neptune
- You Find You Can Leave It All
- Cave Divers near Mount Gambier

New Collected Poems: Table of Contents 
Uncollected Poems
Uncollected: Translations from the Natural World
- Mother Sea Lion
- Insect Mating Flight
Uncollected: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral
- 24 ("The kitchen's not urbane")
- 37 ("Famous twice over now")
- 48 ("The chip-gravelled woodheap surrounds him")
- 51 ("He hurries some way down the road ")
- 63 ("Obsolete and therefore deaf")
- 79 ("Honeyed dust and bush lemon are the perfumes they breathe")
- 100 ("It is a pity we always had to be sensible")
Uncollected: Lunch and Counter Lunch
- Rhymes for a Small Capital
- The Flying Mural
- Bikini
- After Lunch
- Notes
Uncollected: Poems Against Economics
- A Helicopter View of Terrestrial Stars
- In Australia They Spare Only the Kulaks
- The ASIO Bug
- Sunday, Having Read My Sheets
- Dependence
- Middle Earth
Uncollected: The Weatherboard Cathedral
- Shorelines
- Platypus
- Shelduck Lagoon
- Bagman O'Reilly's Curse
- The Merchant's Wheel
- Treeroots and Earth
- One Who Asked, Thinking He Knew

Translations in Italian
- Chiesa [Church]
- La cianografia [The Blueprint]
- Morte per esposizione [Death from Exposure]
- Scivoli e planate scintillanti [The Shining Slopes and Planes]
- Pressione [Pressure]
- Luogo di nascita [Birthplace]
- Il verde di tendenza [The Cool Green]
Introduction to Les Murray in Italian

Translations in German
- Die Annalen der Jähe [The Annals of Sheer]
- Wahre Geschichte [True Yarn]
- Eine australische Legende [Australian Legend]
- Der Mondmann [The Moon Man]
- Honigzyklus [Honey Cycle]
- Hirschrudel auf den nassen Hügeln [Deer on the Wet Hills]

ABOUT POETRY

Les Murray on Writing Poetry

A Defence of Poetry
- The Trances
- The Instrument

Introduction to Hell and After
Four Poems from Hell and After (ed. Les Murray)

Web Chat from Cheltenham

BIOGRAPHY

Brief Biogaphy of Les Murray

Peter Alexander's Biography: A Life in Progress
- Taree High (1955-56)
- Fredy Murray (1993)
- Forgiving the Victim (1996-1998)

CRITICISM ON LES MURRAY

Mick Imlah's Les Murray Overview
Lawrence Bourke's Les Murray Overview

Essays: Les Murray and Australian Poetry
- Cover Notes
- Extract from How Fred and I wrote Fredy Neptune

Steven Matthews' Critical Study
- Cover Notes
- Extract from Les Murray

Jason Clapham's article on The Mitchells
- On The Mitchells

LINKS

Links to Other Sites
- Publishers
- Audio
- Translations
- Poetry Sites
- Interviews
- Reviews
- Others