I like to say that I worked with Les Murray at Australia’s Quadrant magazine. He was literary editor; I was an editorial assistant to John O’Sullivan. In fact, I never interacted with him once. You ...

The Three Crosses Monument in Gdansk, Poland, memorializes the shipyard workers killed on Black Thursday in 1970. While it honors those who died resisting Communism, the monument is also inscribed ...

Les Murray’s posthumous collection “Continuous Creation” highlights both his crankiness and the rough magnificence of the landscape he loved. By William Logan When you purchase an independently ...

SYDNEY — Les Murray, an Australian poet with an international reputation and an extraordinary intellect whose subjects included death, his native bushland, wry social commentary and autobiographical ...

Murray, who turns 78 in October, carved out a reputation as a leading contemporary poet through his distinctively Australian literary voice and his exploration of the nation’s culture, ideals and ...

We are living in a time when prose, and particularly the novel, have almost totally cannibalised other forms. Poetry and today’s reader have a suspicious, resentful relationship: is it too abstract, ...

The story of the great Australian poet Les Murray is one of oblique angles, of seeing things slant, of being not-quite-right. In a country that, like most other countries, takes its cultural bearings ...

A profile of the Australian poet Les Murray Shot on location in Northern New South Wales Featuring dramatisations of his poems and evocative footage of the most ...

The life of British-born author Daniel Tammet was transformed when he discovered he and poet Les Murray, who died on April 29 aged 80, had more than a love of words in common.

LES Murray is no dedicated follower of fashion. Doesn't trust it, doesn't like it. And that's despite the fact that, on his mother's side, he is descended from the Worths. As in the Parisian House of ...