The West Verandah: The life and work of Les Murray

Les Murray is Australia's leading poet and one of the greatest contemporary poets writing in the English Language.

Presenting the work of critics and scholars from both Australia and abroad, this collection creates a synergy between local and international perspectives on the life and work of Les Murray.

Contents

• Foreword – Sonia Mycak
• Interview with Les Murray – Sonia Mycak
• Who in His Write Mind...? – Rod Usher
• A Defence of Poetry – Les Murray
• The Word – Valerie Murray
• Memories, Jokes and Inexhaustible Patterns: Waiting for the Past – Dennis Haskell
• Les Murray's Journey Poems – Margaret Bradstock
• Les Murray's Fair Field – Alan Gould
• Bunyah of the Mind – Angela Smith
• Les Murray: Transport of Poetry – Bruce Clunies Ross
• Les Murray: Life, Work, and Life's Work – Robert Crawford
• Sydney and the Bus: Some Through on the Poetry of Les Murray
• "how most things felt": Fredy Neptune and Incarnation – Charles Lock
• Contributors