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 ›