In this poem, an epithalamium 183 lines long, Les Murray urges what can only be called “fullness of being” by tapping into the energetic contours of the Australian theme of “country as mind.” Murray has identified the distinguishing motif of… Read More ›
New Hieroglyphics is representative of Les Murray’s later creative works. In the preface to The Paperbark Tree (1992), in which this poem first appears, Murray writes: “Poetry is the principle that controls reality.” The pronouncement is significant in suggesting the… Read More ›
An epic novel that was published the same year Patrick White won the Nobel Prize, The Eye of the Storm is set in Australia, White’s native country, and covers the period of the first 70 years of the 20th century…. Read More ›
Winner of the Heinemann Award in 1973 and the basis of an effective 1978 film adaptation, this novel is a tale of cultural conflict in Australia between descendants of English colonialism and an Aborigine who tries and fails to become… Read More ›
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