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Murray, Les A.

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ISBN 10 : 0856359238 ISBN 13 : 9780856359231

Editeur : Carcanet Press Ltd, 1991

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A collection of poems by Les Murray. The 1991 Collected Poems have been corrected and expanded to include the author's later works.

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�diteur: Carcanet Press Ltd
Date d'�dition: 1991
Langue: anglais
ISBN 10: 0856359238
ISBN 13: 9780856359231
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Nombre de pages: 320
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Les Murray - Collected Poems

Les Murray

Edit� par Carcanet Press, 1991

ISBN 10 : 0856359238 ISBN 13 : 9780856359231

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Hardback. Etat : Good. There are poetry books, and then there is Les Murray ? Collected Poems , which does not merely arrive on the shelf but seems to take possession of a small acreage around it. Published in 1991 by Carcanet Press, this is exactly the sort of book Crappy Old Books likes to handle with a mixture of respect and faint delight: serious, substantial, literary, and carrying the unmistakable air of a writer who did not come to the page to be neat, fashionable or politely metropolitan. Les Murray was one of those poets who seemed to write with weather systems attached. Not just poems, but landscapes, arguments, creatures, memories, class tensions, jokes, sorrows, theology, paddocks, and whole emotional continents. And then there is that phrase: Collected Poems . Few titles carry more authority. A ?selected? can still hedge its bets. A ?new and chosen? may be trying to charm you. But a Collected Poems says the work has piled up, the voice has endured, and the time has come to gather the lot into one commanding volume and let it stand. It has the air of a reckoning. A proper literary harvest. You do not so much browse a collected poems as enter into long-term relations with it. Les Murray, of course, was never a minor presence. He belongs to that increasingly rare class of poet who feels not just individual but territorial. His work can be funny, abrasive, lush, precise, sprawling, tender, strange and deeply intelligent, sometimes all within a few pages. He wrote about Australia in ways that made it feel not like a postcard nation of sunshine and beaches, but a dense living place of labour, animals, language, memory, rurality, spirit and absurdity. Even when he is writing locally, there is something enormous going on. You do not read Les Murray and come away feeling the world has shrunk. Which is part of the pleasure here. A collected edition of Murray is not a slim tasteful object for signalling that you once attended a poetry evening in 1987. It is a proper chunk of mind and language. A book for living with. A book likely to outlast trends, d�cor schemes and several phases of self-improvement. If many modern poetry collections feel designed to accompany a coffee, this one feels more like something that should be issued alongside a weather warning and a map. As sold by Crappy Old Books, this copy is in good condition , which is just right. A good-condition 1991 Carcanet poetry volume should look kept rather than merely stored: owned by someone who knew what it was, perhaps dipped into it repeatedly, perhaps intended to read more of it than they did, but in any case respected it enough not to let it dissolve into household entropy. Good condition means it remains solid, readable, and handsomely shelfable, which is exactly what a collected poems ought to be. There is also something wonderfully ironic about a book of this scope turning up second-hand. Once upon a time this may have been purchased with noble determination: a serious reader thinking, yes, I shall properly have Les Murray in my life. And perhaps they did. Or perhaps they managed thirty-seven pages, became distracted by taxes or divorce or central heating, and there it sat, radiating Australian poetic grandeur from the shelf. Either way, it has now reached that ideal state of second-hand literary dignity: still impressive, still potent, but available to the next hopeful custodian. Carcanet, too, is exactly the right imprint for this sort of thing. It has long specialised in publishing poetry with actual spine and standards, and a Carcanet collected poems carries a certain institutional calm. It suggests that someone, somewhere, still believed serious literature should be properly made and kept in circulation. Crappy Old Books is entirely in favour of such civilised arrangements. For collectors, this is a lovely thing: Les Murray in substantial form, Carcanet Press, early 1990s, and the sort of volume that belongs on any serious poetry shelf. For readers, it is both a feast and a challenge ? a chance to spend time with a major poet whose imagination was large enough to be unruly and exact enough to make that unruliness count. For shelf appeal, it is first-rate. A copy of Les Murray ? Collected Poems suggests that someone in the house may have views about poetry, nationhood, language, cattle, metaphysics, or all four. It is also the sort of book that improves a room just by being present. Collected poems do that. They imply duration, seriousness and the possibility that language may still matter beyond slogans, advertising and whatever fresh hell is currently happening to the internet. This one, being Murray, adds a further implication: that the natural world, the social world and the spiritual world may all be messier, funnier and more sacred than we have lately allowed. So here we have a good-condition 1991 Carcanet Press edition of Les Murray ? Collected Poems : large-minded, authoritative, durable and gloriously uninterested in being dainty. It is a proper poetry book in the old, satisfying sense ? one with heft, range and the confidence to contain multitudes without making a fuss about it. Les Murray ? Collected Poems is exactly the kind of book Crappy Old Books likes to rescue and rehome: intelligent, generous, slightly formidable, and full of the rich disorder that only a major poet can bring under command. If you like poetry with muscle, reach, wit, oddity and weather in it, this is a splendid thing to have on the shelf ? a book large enough to lean against, intellectually speaking, when the thinner volumes start to wobble. N� de r�f. du vendeur 5896

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Collected Poems

Murray, Les

Edit� par Carcanet, Manchester, 1991

ISBN 10 : 0856359238 ISBN 13 : 9780856359231

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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. In black boards with gilt to spine. Bottom corners lightly dinged. Tiny chips at same corners and a very small spot of rubbing with pinprick puncture to bottom of spine. Some light age toning to jacket. A very nice copy overall. 1st Printing. N� de r�f. du vendeur LPB002622LM

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Murray, Les

Edit� par Manchester; Carcanet;, 1991

ISBN 10 : 0856359238 ISBN 13 : 9780856359231

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First edition, first printing. Good with some foxing in good price clipped dustjacket also with some foxing. N� de r�f. du vendeur 36111

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Collected Poems

Murray, Les A.

Edit� par Carcanet Press Ltd, 1991

ISBN 10 : 0856359238 ISBN 13 : 9780856359231

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Hardback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. N� de r�f. du vendeur GOR005378456

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Collected Poems

Murray, Les

Edit� par Carcanet, Manchester, 1991

ISBN 10 : 0856359238 ISBN 13 : 9780856359231

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Vendeur : George Longden, Macclesfield, Royaume-Uni

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Hardback. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First edition. 215 x 135 mm. xii, 324 pp. An attractive copy of the first printing of the British edition of Les Murray's "Collected Poems". Includes all the poems Murray wished to preserve from 1965 to 1989, only excluding the verse novel "The Boys Who Stole the Funeral". Not price-clipped, no inscriptions. Book. N� de r�f. du vendeur 81047

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Collected poems / Les Murray

Murray, Les A. (1938-2019)

Edit� par Manchester : Carcanet, 1991

ISBN 10 : 0856359238 ISBN 13 : 9780856359231

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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Not price-clipped. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xii, 319p. ; 23cm. Subjects: Australian poetry -- 20th century -- Collections. 3 Kg. N� de r�f. du vendeur 307372

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Murray, Les A. (1938-2019)

Edit� par Manchester : Carcanet, 1991

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