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Notes
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'This selection comprises what Les Murray considers his most successfully realised poems, drawn from all of his collections up to and including Poems the Size of Photographs, but not including his two verse novels.' (From back cover of Learning Human : Selected Poems of Les Murray.)
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Includes two previously uncollected poems 'The Dark' and 'The Averted'
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Potts Point,
Kings Cross area,
Inner Sydney,
Sydney,
New South Wales,:Duffy and Snellgrove
, 2003 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- The Burning Trucki"It began at dawn with fighter planes:", single work poetry (p. 1)
- Driving Through Sawmill Townsi"In the high cool country,", single work poetry (p. 2-3)
- An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbowi"The word goes round Repins, the murmur goes round Lorenzinis,", single work poetry (p. 3-5)
- Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfili"The first night of my second voyage to Wales,", single work poetry (p. 5-6)
- Incorrigible Gracei"Saint Vincent de Paul, old friend,", single work poetry humour (p. 6)
- The Pure Food Acti"Night, as I go into the place of cattle.", single work poetry (p. 7-8)
- "Einmal reitest du auf dem Weltenpferd" Jozsefi"You ride on the world-horse once", Margitt Lehbert (translator) single work poetry (p. 8-10)
- Kiss of the Whipi"In Cardiff, off Saint Mary's Street", single work poetry (p. 10-11)
- The Broad Bean Sermoni"Beanstalks, in any breeze, are a slack church parade", single work poetry (p. 12)
- Rock Musici"Sex is a Nazi. The students all knew", single work poetry (p. 12--121)
- The Powerline Incarnationi"When I ran to snatch the wires off our roof", single work poetry (p. 13-14)
- Creeper Habiti"On Bennelong Point", single work poetry (p. 15)
- Employment for the Castes in Abeyancei"I was a translator at the Institute:", single work poetry (p. 15-17)
- The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cyclei"The people are eating dinner in that country north of Legge's Lake;", single work poetry (p. 17-26)
- The Gum Foresti"After the last gapped wire on a post,", single work poetry (p. 26-27)
- Rainwater Tanki"Empty rings when tapped give tongue", single work poetry (p. 27-28)
- The Futurei"There is nothing about it. Much science fiction is set there", single work poetry (p. 28-29)
- Immigrant Voyagei"My wife came out on the Goya", single work poetry (p. 29-33)
- Homage to the Launching-Placei"Pleasure-craft of the sprung rhythms, bed,", single work poetry (p. 33-34)
- First Essay on Interesti"Not usury, but interest. The cup slowed in mid-raise,", single work poetry (p. 34-36)
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