Teaching Resources
Resources for teaching Les Murray's poetry. If you would like to contribute resources to this page, or if you are having difficulty finding a poem you wish to teach, please contact me by email at the address shown on the About page.
Les Murray is currently being taught for I.B. Language A (Part III) at St Edward's Oxford:
Selected Poems for I.B. (Booklet) 
The following resources have been used teaching Les Murray as a post-colonial writer to A-level students:
Ruth Padel's excellent close-reading of Les Murray from 52 Ways of Looking at a Poem:
The following poems have been taught as a unit at Aquinas College in Western Australia:
- Inside Ayers Rock
- The Burning Truck
- The Mitchells
- The Gum Forest
- The Drugs of War
- Kiss of the Whip
- Shale Country
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
- Midnight Lake
- Sydney and the Bush
- Tableau in January
- The Incendiary Method
- The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever
- The Canberra Suburbs’ Infinite Extension
- Poetry and Religion
- Contested Landscapes at Forsayth
- The Sleepout
- Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil
- Spring Hail