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Contents partially indexed; to be completed.
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Epigraph: By chance, just as Daphnis had settled down in the shade / Of a whispering ilex tree, Thyrsis and Corydon came there, / Thyrsis with sheep, Corydon with milk-heavy she-goats, / Two youths in their prime, Arcadian singers both of them, And equally keen to make up a verse, or match one (Virgil, Eclogues VII).
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Canberra,
Australian Capital Territory,:Australian National University Press
, 1965 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Japanese Bargei"A strange thing happened here", single work poetry (p. 11)
- Propertyi"In my secret garden", single work poetry (p. 12)
- The Singer's Nagi"My old mount picks her way along", single work poetry (p. 13)
- Privacyi"The rain is easing, one and a million dark", single work poetry (p. 14)
- Love after Lonelinessi"Plucking the petals of a song", single work poetry (p. 15)
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Dolores
Poem for Poor Doloresi"No, he doesn't sleep alone",
single work
poetry
(p. 16)
Note: With title: Dolores
- Personalityi"Only yesterdat some Selves", single work poetry (p. 17)
- Artificial Harbouri"I would tell with absolute", single work poetry (p. 18)
- Agitationi"The curtains move, the picture comes and goes", single work poetry (p. 19)
- Tableau in Januaryi"January, noon. The idle length of a street...", single work poetry (p. 20)
- The Trainee, 1914i"Ah, I was as soiled as money, old as rag,", single work poetry (p. 21)
- A New England Farm, August 1914i"August is the windy month,", single work poetry war literature (p. 22)
- The Burning Trucki"It began at dawn with fighter planes:", single work poetry (p. 23)
- Les Parasi"I will remember these faces", single work poetry (p. 24)
- Deck-Chair Storyi"I see the horses running on the plain", single work poetry (p. 25)
- The Winter Risingi"We lived below the houses of the hill", single work poetry (p. 26)
- Manoeuvresi"At piccaninny dawn, a silver silence", single work poetry (p. 27)
- Minueti"Dancing. They were dancing in my dream", single work poetry (p. 28)
- A Poem for Valeriei"Descending into the level country", single work poetry (p. 29)
- The Widower in the Countryi"I'll get up soon, and leave my bed unmade.", single work poetry (p. 30)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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“Creation’s Holiday” : On Silence and Monsters in Australian Poetry
2016
single work
essay
— Appears in: Poetry , May 2016; (p. 169-184) -
The Country Calling
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury Weekender , 5-6 March 2011; (p. 21) Poet Les Murray spends as much time in cities as he does in the country. -
The Form of Love: Les Murray, Selfhood and the Romantic Impulse
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Fantastic Self : Essays on the Subject of the Self 1999; (p. 197-205) -
Family and the Father in the Poetry of Les A. Murray
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 13 no. 3 1988; (p. 282-295) -
The Bardic Pose: A Survey of Les A. Murray's Poetry : [Part] 1
1980
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 40 no. 4 1980; (p. 367-387)
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The Empty Room
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 12 February vol. 88 no. 4484 1966; (p. 48)
— Review of The Ilex Tree 1965 selected work poetry ; The Cantbeworried Tales : Some Modern Types Chaucerwise 1965 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Feast of Ancestors : Poems
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , December no. 3 1966; (p. 90-94)
— Review of Forty Years' Poems 1965 selected work poetry ; A Need of Similar Name 1965 selected work poetry ; Cock Crow : Poems 1965 selected work poetry ; Young Commonwealth Poets '65 1965 anthology poetry ; The Ilex Tree 1965 selected work poetry ; The Feast of Ancestors : Poems 1965 selected work poetry -
Sophisticates and Primitives
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 26 no. 2 1966; (p. 126-132)
— Review of Elsie Carew : Australian Primitive Poet : A Selection from Her Verse and Prose 1965 single work criticism ; A Need of Similar Name 1965 selected work poetry ; Briseis : A Poem 1965 sequence poetry ; The Feast of Ancestors : Poems 1965 selected work poetry ; The Ilex Tree 1965 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Ilex Tree
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 10 September 1966; (p. 23)
— Review of The Ilex Tree 1965 selected work poetry ; The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall 1966 selected work poetry -
[Review] The Ilex Tree
1966
single work
review
— Appears in: Poetry Magazine , no. 1 1966; (p. 28-30)
— Review of The Ilex Tree 1965 selected work poetry -
The Country Calling
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: Illawarra Mercury Weekender , 5-6 March 2011; (p. 21) Poet Les Murray spends as much time in cities as he does in the country. -
Family and the Father in the Poetry of Les A. Murray
1988
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 13 no. 3 1988; (p. 282-295) -
The Bardic Pose: A Survey of Les A. Murray's Poetry : [Part] 1
1980
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 40 no. 4 1980; (p. 367-387) -
The Poetry of Les Murray
1971
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 31 no. 3 1971; (p. 188-198) -
The Form of Love: Les Murray, Selfhood and the Romantic Impulse
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Fantastic Self : Essays on the Subject of the Self 1999; (p. 197-205)
Awards
- 1965 winner Grace Leven Poetry Prize
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