New Selected Poems

Les Murray

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781847771674
• eBook ISBN: 9781847776068
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

New Selected Poems contains Les Murray's gathering from the full range of his poetry, from poems of the 1960s to work from Taller When Prone (2004) and new poems yet to appear in a collection. Les Murray is one of the finest poets writing today; endlessly inventive, his work celebrates the world and the power of the imagination. New Selected Poems is the poet's choice of his essential works: an indispensable collection for readers who already love his poetry, and an ideal introduction for those new to it.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• The Burning Truck
• Driving through Sawmill Towns
• An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
• Working Men
• Vindaloo in Merthyr Tydfil
• Incorrigible Grace
• The Pure Food Act
• József
• Kiss of the Whip
• The Broad Bean Sermon
• The Mitchells
• The Powerline Incarnation
• Creeper Habit
• Employment for the Castes in Abeyance
• Driving to the Adelaide Festival 1976 via the Murray Valley Highway
• The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle
• The Gum Forest
• Rainwater Tank
• The Future
• Immigrant Voyage
• The Craze Field
• The Grassfire Stanzas
• Homage to the Launching-place
• First Essay on Interest
• The Fishermen at South Head
• View of Sydney, Australia, from Gladesville Road Bridge
• Quintets for Robert Morley
• Equanimity
• Shower
• Two Poems in Memory of My Mother, Miriam Murray née Arnall
• Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman
• The Hypogeum
• Second Essay on Interest: the Emu
• A Retrospect of Humidity
• Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn
• The Chimes of Neverwhere
• The Smell of Coal Smoke
• Time Travel
• The Dark
• Flood Plains on the Coast Facing Asia
• The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever
• At the Aquatic Carnival
• The Sleepout
• Louvres
• Letters to the Winner
• The Milk Lorry
• The Butter Factory
• Roman Cage-cups
• The Lake Surnames
• Nocturne
• Lotus Dam
• Hearing Impairment
• At Thunderbolt’s Grave in Uralla
• Poetry and Religion
• May: When Bounty is Down to Persimmons and Lemons
• June: The Kitchens
• July: Midwinter Haircut
• August: Forty Acre Ethno
• September: Mercurial
• November: The Misery Cord
• December: Infant Among Cattle
• February: Feb
• The Transposition of Clermont
• Cave Divers Near Mount Gambier
• The Tin Wash Dish
• The Inverse Transports
• The Pole Barns
• Glaze
• Shale Country
• The International Terminal
• Granite Country
• Dog Fox Field
• Hastings River Cruise
• Words of the Glassblowers
• High Sugar
• On Removing Spiderweb
• The Assimilation of Background
• Accordion Music
• Ariel
• Politics and Art
• The Ballad of the Barbed Wire Ocean
• Midnight Lake
• Antarctica
• Blue Roan
• The Gaelic Long Tunes
• Wagtail
• Bats’ Ultrasound
• Eagle Pair
• Two Dogs
• Cockspur Bush
• Lyrebird
• Shoal
• Cattle Ancestor
• Mollusc
• The Snake’s Heat Organ
• Yard Horse
• The Octave of Elephants
• Pigs
• The Cows on Killing Day
• Shellback Tick
• Cell DNA
• Goose to Donkey
• Spermaceti
• Migratory
• Home Suite
• The Wedding at Berrico
• Crankshaft
• The Family Farmers’ Victory
• Dead Trees in the Dam
• Rock Music
• The Rollover
• Late Summer Fires
• Corniche
• Suspended Vessels
• The Water Column
• The Beneficiaries
• Wallis Lake Estuary
• On Home Beaches
• On the Present Slaughter of Feral Animals
• Memories of the Height-to-Weight Ratio
• It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen
• Performance
• Second Childhood is Legal
• Inside Ayers Rock
• Contested Landscape at Forsayth
• The Shield-Scales of Heraldry
• The Year of the Kiln Portraits
• Tympan Alley
• A Lego of Driving to Sydney
• Burning Want
• The Last Hellos
• Comete
• Cotton Flannelette
• The Warm Rain
• Demo
• Deaf Language
• The Head-Spider
• Dreambabwe
• Amanda’s Painting
• One Kneeling, One Looking Down
• The Margin of Difference
• A Reticence
• The Harleys
• Aurora Prone
• The Instrument
• Music to Me is Like Days
• A Deployment of Fashion
• To Me You’ll Always Be Spat
• The Disorderly
• A Postcard
• The Internationale
• Oasis City
• Towards 2000
• You Find You Can Leave It All
• Small Flag Above the Slaughter
• Downhill on Borrowed Skis
• The Holy Show
• A Riddle
• Sound Bites
• In the Costume of Andalusia
• Autumn Cello
• The New Hieroglyphics
• The Annals of Sheer
• Ernest Hemingway and the Latest Quake
• The Images Alone
• Rooms of the Sketch-Garden
• The Tin Clothes
• Judged Worth Evacuating
• The Moon Man
• Succour
• Predawn in Health
• Touchdown
• The Cut-Out
• Visitor
• Clothing as Dwelling as Shouldered Boat
• Starry Night
• The Kettle’s Bubble-Making Floor
• Big Bang
• Worker Knowledge
• Jellyfish
• The Great Cuisine Cleaver Dance Sonnet
• Creole Exam
• Hoon Hoon
• A Countryman
• The End of Symbol
• Reclaim the Sites
• The Bellwether Brush
• In a Time of Cuisine
• Uplands
• The Pay for Fosterage
• A Study of the Nude
• Iguassu
• Pietà Once Attributed to Cosme Tura
• The Knockdown Question
• The Insiders
• Pop Music
• The Body in Physics
• Fruit Bat Colony by Day
• The Climax of Factory Farming
• The Poisons of Right and Left
• The Top Alcohol Contender
• Apsley Falls
• To One Outside the Culture
• Portrait of a Felspar-Coloured Cat
• At University
• The Young Fox
• Experience
• The Barcaldine Suite
• The Meaning of Existence
• The Aboriginal Cricketer
• The Aztec Revival
• The Averted
• Post Mortem
• The Hanging Gardens
• Leaf Brims
• The Statistics of Good
• Twelve Poems
• Travelling the British Roads
• Winter Winds
• The Tune on Your Mind
• A Dialect History of Australia
• For an Eightieth Birthday
• Melbourne Pavement Coffee
• Black Belt in Marital Arts
• The Welter
• A Levitation of Land
• Through the Lattice Door
• On the North Coast Line
• The Nostril Songs
• The Newcastle Rounds
• The House Left in English
• Yregami
• Upright Clear Across
• The Shining Slopes and Planes
• The Succession
• The Offshore Island
• The Hoaxist
• The Cool Green
• Death from Exposure
• Me and Je Reviens
• Pressure
• Church
• Pastoral Sketch
• The Mare out on the Road
• The Blueprint
• Blueprint II
• Norfolk Island
• Birthplace
• Lateral Dimensions
• Bright Lights on Earth
• Panic Attack
• Sunday on a Country River
• Ripe in the Arbours of the Nose
• Industrial Relations
• From a Tourist Journal
• Definitions
• The Conversations
• The Double Diamond
• As Country Was Slow
• Midi
• Observing the Mute Cat
• Nursing Home
• Fame
• Cattle-Hoof Hardpan
• Phone Canvass
• Science Fiction
• Brown Suits
• Southern Hemisphere Garden
• The Suspect Corpse
• Eucalypts in Exile
• Cherries from Young
• Croc
• High-speed Bird
• The Cowladder Stanzas
• The Farm Terraces
• Visiting Geneva
• The Bronze Bull
• Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose
• The Springfields
• Rugby Wheels
• A Frequent Flyer Proposes a Name
• Hesiod on Bushfire
• The Blame
• Daylight Cloth
• The Mirrorball
• Infinite Anthology
• Manuscript Roundel
• Natal Grass
• The Black Beaches
• Inspecting the Rivermouth
• High Rise
• Nuclear Family Bees
• When Two Per Cent Were Students
• I Wrote a Little Haiku
• West Coast Township
• Money and the Flying Horses
• Sun Taiko
• Child Logic
• Powder of Light
• Index of First Lines
• Index of Titles
• About the Author
• Also by Les Murray from Carcanet
• Copyright