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Links to Other Sites Comprising links to biographical resources, Les Murray's publishers, audio, translations of the poems, recommended poetry sites, interviews, reviews and others. Books may be bought online from Les Murray's two principal publishers: Carcanet (UK) Duffy & Snellgrove (Australia) JM Meulenhoff (Netherlands) for Dutch translations of some major
works. The site includes several extracts. Solum Forlag (Norway) for Norwegian translations. Wahlström & Widstrand (Sweden) for Swedish translations. The Poetry Archive features its own recordings of Les Murray in
2001. Listen online to The Tin
Wash Dish, Bats' Ultrasound, The Last
Hellos, The Annals of Sheer, The Pay for Fosterage, The Climax of
Factory Farming and The Meaning of Existence.
A CD featuring all 55 of the recordings is available from the Poetry
Bookshop Online, as are a generous selection of published titles: Lyrikline recordings from 2000 of Les Murray reading Bats'
Ultrasound, The Quality of Sprawl, Poetry and Religion, The
Broad Bean Sermon, The Cows on the Killing Day, Quintets for Robert
Morley, The Images Alone, Ernest Hemingway and the Latest Quake
and Water-gardening in an Old Farm Dam (literaturWERKstatt Berlin): BBC recordings of Les talking on Radio 3 on such subjects as 'rationalism
and the dreamworld', Australian writing, the pros and cons of Australian
universities and atrocity in the twentieth century: Duffy & Snellgrove recording of Les Murray reading It Allows a
Portrait in Line Scan at 15: German translation of a selection from throughout Les Murray's
oeuvre: Russian translations of a good selection of poems by Regina Derieva: Italian translations of three poems from the Rivista di poesia
comparata: Dutch translation of The New Hieroglyphics: The Plagiarist.com Poetry Archive is a repository of classic and
modern poetry, with a good collection of Les Murray poems. Some
of these were sourced from our own showcase
of poems; others, such as The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever, are
from other sites: The Quadrant is an Australian literary magazine containing a number
of poems by Les Murray, some of them not yet published in book form: The Poetry Book Society (PBS) is an excellent way of keeping abreast
of contemporary poetry, and is a cheap source of books and titles
that are out of stock elsewhere: The Poetry Resources site contains a wealth of poetry news, books
and links to quality web resources: Poem of the Week emails a poem once a week from an eclectic library.
It is easy to subscribe to and unsubscribe from the service (which
is free): Excepts from The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse chosen
by Les Murray (see Bibliography)
are available at: OzPoet, if they say so themselves, is the definitive gateway
to contemporary Australian poetry: Australia HQ offer a generous collection of links for explorers
Australian poetry: Australia's Cultural Network is also worth a visit: The 'other' Murray homepage: As the home of quiet enthusiasms, the Bikwell website and
newsletter offers intelligent editorial and contributions on a number
of subjects (electronic subscription is free): Being rather more than its name suggests, Renascence Editions is
a massive collection of poetry and prose from 1477 to the end of
the eighteenth century. Embracing the Vernacular Enjoying the Afterlife On Fredy Neptune Observer Interview See also: Les Murray Audio Peter Porter's controversial review of the New Collected Poems,
also from the Guardian (March 15, 2003): Google's Book Search is a good source of academic material on Les
Murray; a number of pages of the books may be read online (Google
login required, free):
The poet Ruth Padel's review of Fredy Neptune for the New
York Times comes with a good-sized extract from the novel's opening
chapter: The New York University's Literature, Arts and Medicine Database
has annotations on Burning Want, Hearing Impairment, The Last Hellos
and Travels with John Hunter: A substantial profile of Les Murray by Robert Potts (Guardian,
2004) describes the poet's life and work: Poet John Kinsella's essay provides a useful Les Murray overview: The new Google Books search engine is also worth consulting. Macquarie University's dictionary of Australian English: The US-based Amazon.com site
have a new feature called See Inside. Now you can read 33 pages
from the Learning Human: New Sected Poems online: The best way to find other Les Murray resources on the net is to
use a search engine like Google,
which is incredibly quick and accurate, especially when the advanced
search features are used. They also have a natty toolbar to facilitate
searching: If you are thinking of putting together a poetry website of your
own, I would recommend the Yale Web Style Guide, which gives expert
advice on all aspects of site design, and is published online in
full: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Admittedly this hasn't much to
do with Les Murray, but we think it is a fantastic site! |