The Biplane Houses - Murray, Les
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This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection-named for a kind of house distinctive to Murray's native Australia-exhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style, or genre: there are story poems, puns extended to poem length, history-and myths in miniature, aphoristic fragments, and domestic portraits. As ever, Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity. The Biplane Houses is ardent, eloquent, enchanting poetry.…mehr

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This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since Poems the Size of Photographs in 2002. In it we find Murray at his nearmiraculous best. The collection-named for a kind of house distinctive to Murray's native Australia-exhibits both his unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style, or genre: there are story poems, puns extended to poem length, history-and myths in miniature, aphoristic fragments, and domestic portraits. As ever, Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity. The Biplane Houses is ardent, eloquent, enchanting poetry.
Autorenporträt
Australian poet and gentleman farmer Les Murray published nearly 30 volumes of poetry, two verse novels, as well as collections of his essays & a memoir; his work won many awards, including the T. S. Eliot Prize (1996). His books include The Vernacular Republic, Translations from the Natural World, Subhuman Redneck Poems, Fredy Neptune (a verse novel), & Killing the Black Dog (memoir). One of the earliest Gobshite Quarterly contributors, he passed away in 2019, & will be sorely missed.