Not only the migrating birds speak in Translations from the Natural World. Pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of…

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…

The latest collection from Australia’s greatest living poet, the multiple-award-winning Les Murray, which pays homage to his rural home of Bunyah through poetry and photographs

In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray’s linguistic powers…

A Collection of Les Murray’s poetry that reveals the variety, intensity, and generosity of this great Australian poet’s work.

I starred last night, I shone:
I was footwork and firework…

In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that…

The work of Pierre Bourdieu has had an enormous impact on research in fields as diverse as aesthetics, education, anthropology, and sociology. This is a collection of essays focusing on…