On Bunyah
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Carcanet Press Ltd
Published:30th Mar '17
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* Australia's greatest poet, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, celebrates his return to his rural roots. * Poems and photographs explore his beloved farm and community in Bunyah, New South Wales. * Les, par excellence the poet of the natural world and the human spirit, is also one of the great religious poets of our time. * Carcanet's 21st Murray book: his collections, anthologies and essays are among our best sellers.
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'Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws.' This updated edition of On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs. From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries, Les Murray evokes the life and landscape of his part of the country.
'No one writes like Murray: so truthful, nakedly emotional, wry, watchful. He's set deep in the Australian landscape, writing about back roads, vertigo, sliced bread, old typewriters and the persistence of love. Murray is the holy fool of his own poems, and a hero of poetry.' - Helen Dunmore, The Observer New Review; 'Murray is one of the very few poets with whose best work you feel that having read it you won't, can't be quite the same again.' - London Review of Books; 'Very occasionally you come across something on the page which makes you think "you can't do any better than this." Perfection achieved.' - BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review on On Bunyah
ISBN: 9781784104986
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160 pages