Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life - its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape and the people who have shaped it. There are traveller's tales, elegies, meditative fragments and satirical sketches. Above all there is Murray's astonishing versatility, on display here at its exhilarating best.
'There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate and conversational.' - Derek Walcott
'He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.' - Joseph Brodsky
The Age Book of the Year 2010 Poetry Shortlist
Wimmera
$39.95 – Paperback book / Black Pepper
Replacing the battles of heroes and gods with the struggle of mortal humans with time and space, ‘Wimmera’ re-invents the epic. ‘Wimmera’ is the history of a region and seedbed of a vision where ‘the bunyip indeed lays d... Buy or find out more →
A Whistled Bit Of Bop
$27.50 – Paperback book / Vagabond Press
Ken Bolton’s A Whistled Bit of Bop begins and ends with poems that embrace the abstract through collage — working with pre-existing materials, the initial selection often arbitrary. ‘Double Trouble’ deals with time and... Buy or find out more →
Taller When Prone
$24.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since 2006's The Biplane Houses. With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacul... Buy or find out more →
Pirate Rain
$24.00 – Paperback book / Giramondo Publishing
Pirate Rain explores arbitrary power, as delivered by piratical, natural and human forces. Greed and ambition cause disasters in the poems, in complex sequences – featuring Hillary Clinton and Eleanor Roosevelt, and the ... Buy or find out more →
Authentic Local
$20.95 – Paperback book / Paper Tiger
"Pam Brown’s poetry attends to the soundbites and transitoriness of contemporary Australian life. Her dazzling wordplay gives us glistening souvenirs of overblown politik-speak, uncontrolled Western consumption, and the ... Buy or find out more →
