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Taller When Prone

Poems

Taller When Prone( )
Author: Murray, Les
ISBN:978-0-374-53308-3
Publication Date:Feb 2012
Publisher:Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.00
Book Description:

"Les Murray has earned his reputation not only as one of Australia's finest writers but as one of the most engaging poets writing in English today." --Kate Kellaway, The Observer (London) Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since The Biplane Houses, published in 2007. These poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life in Australia and elsewhere--its rhythms...
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Book Details
Pages:96
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / Australian & Oceanian
Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.51 x 8.26 x 0.28 Inches
Book Weight:0.022 Pounds
Author Biography
Murray, Les (Author)
Les Murray has published some thirty books. His work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into several foreign languages. In 1996 he was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, in 1998 the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, and in 2004 the Mondello Prize. His most recent collections of work include The Biplane Houses, Fredy Neptune, Selected Poems, Collected Poems, Killing the Black Dog, and Taller When Prone. He was recognized for his poetry collection, Waiting for the Past, which was awarded the Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection in the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2015 and the 2016 Adelaide Festival Award for Poetry's John Bray Poetry Award.

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