Continuous Creation by Les Murray

Continuous Creation by Les Murray

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This book is the last major offering from Australia's greatest - and best-loved - poet, compiled in his final years at Bunyah and found after his death.

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Continuous Creation by Les Murray

Australia's greatest and best-loved poet, Les Murray (1938–2019) was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at the nomination of Ted Hughes (1999) and won the T.S. Eliot Award among many other distinctions. He is a poet of deep environmental commitment: born and raised on the land, he died at his farm in Bunyah in New South Wales. Continuous Creation is his last major offering, compiled in his final years at Bunyah and found there after his death. 'There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and conversational,' wrote Derek Walcott in the New Republic. This last book, like his earlier collections, is many-toned: he is a comic writer, a satirist, elegist and hymnodist. He is a celebrator. He is a rainbow.
'Murray is one of the very few poets with whose best work you feel that having read it you won't, can't be quite the same again' - London Review of Books
Les Murray (1938–2019) lived in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. The author of some thirty books, his work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into many foreign languages. In 1997 he was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, in 1998 he won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2004 he was awarded the Mondello Prize.
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ISBN 13 9781800171749
ISBN 10 1800171749
Title Continuous Creation
Author Les Murray
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Carcanet Press Ltd
Year published 2022-04-28
Number of pages 96
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