Carcanet Press - Taller When Prone

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Thinking up names
for a lofty farm: High Wallet,
Cow Terraces, Fogsheep,
Rainside, Helmet Brush,
Tipcamber, Dingo Leap...

from 'the Cowladder Stanzas'

Taller When Prone has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them. Stories and songs, fragments of conversations, memories and satire comprise this varied, habitable world. In Murray's vigorous and sinuous language, 'song and story are pixels / in a mirrorball', reflecting back to us endless possibilities.

Contents

From a Tourist Journal
Bluelookout Mountain
The Sharman Drum
The Toppled Head
Defi nitions
The Conversations
The Double Diamond
As Country Was Slow
The Death of Isaac Nathan, 1864
The Filo Soles
Midi
Observing the Mute Cat
Buttress on a High Cutting
Ovoids
Nursing Home
Fame
Cattle-Hoof Hardpan
Phone Canvass
King Lear Had Alzheimer’s
Science Fiction
Atlantic Pavements
Refusing Saul’s Armour
Our Dip in the Rift Valley
Brown Suits
Southern Hemisphere Garden
Two Scapes
The Suspect Corpse
Eucalypts in Exile
The Monroe Survey
Reading by Starlight
Cherries from Young
Lunar Eclipse
Croc
High-speed Bird
The Cowladder Stanzas
The Farm Terraces
The Drizzle of Chefs’ Knives
The Sphere
The Submerged Chute of Bass Strait
Visiting Geneva
The Bronze Bull
Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose
The Springfi elds
Rugby Wheels
A Frequent Flyer Proposes a Name
Hesiod on Bushfire
The Blame
Singing Tour in Vietnam
Midwinter Kangaroo Nests
The 41st Year of 1968
Daylight Cloth
The Mirrorball
Infi nite Anthology
Wrecked Birds
At the Opera
The Relative Gold
The Cartoonist
Manuscript Roundel
Natal Grass
The Fallen Golfer
The Man in the White Bay Hotel
Winding Up at the Bootmaker’s
Acknowledgements

Les Murray (1938-2019) grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales. He studied at Sydney University and later worked as a translator at the Australian National University and as an officer in the Prime Minister's Department. His real vocation was poetry, however, and ... read more

Awards won by Les Murray Short-listed, 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize (Waiting for the Past ) Long-listed, 1994 for the Oxford Chair of Poetry. Winner, 1996 T.S. Eliot Prize for the best collection. (Subhuman Redneck Poems) Winner, 1999 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Praise for Les Murray 'Les Murray's final gift to us, published exactly three years after his death, is certainly worth the wait.'

André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary Supplement

'The earth's physical landscape...is rendered with extraordinary, often strange, beauty.'

New Yorker

'His poetry was never less than a rough-edged hymn of praise to the ceaseless and unstoppable wonders of Creation'

Michael Glover, The Tablet

'The poems in this posthumous collection are, as so often in his work, intelligent, high-spirited, coolly or crudely argued, full of small delights, often with a strong dose of wrongheadedness... Murray was that rare thing, a poet who whatever his debts seemed an original.'

William Logan, The New York Times

'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 'Waiting for the Past is a brilliant collection by a brilliant poet.'
Anthony Domestico, Commonweal Magazine

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Taller When Prone Les Murray 10% off eBook (EPUB) Categories: 21st Century, Australian, Christianity Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847779670 £9.95 £8.96 Paperback (72 pages) (Pub. Nov 2010) 9781847771230 Out of Stock To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions. Description Excerpt Author Contents Awards Reviews Thinking up names for a lofty farm: High Wallet, Cow Terraces, Fogsheep, Rainside, Helmet Brush, Tipcamber, Dingo Leap... from 'the Cowladder Stanzas' Taller When Prone has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have shaped them. Stories and songs, fragments of conversations, memories and satire comprise this varied, habitable world. In Murray's vigorous and sinuous language, 'song and story are pixels / in a mirrorball', reflecting back to us endless possibilities. Contents From a Tourist Journal Bluelookout Mountain The Sharman Drum The Toppled Head Defi nitions The Conversations The Double Diamond As Country Was Slow The Death of Isaac Nathan, 1864 The Filo Soles Midi Observing the Mute Cat Buttress on a High Cutting Ovoids Nursing Home Fame Cattle-Hoof Hardpan Phone Canvass King Lear Had Alzheimer’s Science Fiction Atlantic Pavements Refusing Saul’s Armour Our Dip in the Rift Valley Brown Suits Southern Hemisphere Garden Two Scapes The Suspect Corpse Eucalypts in Exile The Monroe Survey Reading by Starlight Cherries from Young Lunar Eclipse Croc High-speed Bird The Cowladder Stanzas The Farm Terraces The Drizzle of Chefs’ Knives The Sphere The Submerged Chute of Bass Strait Visiting Geneva The Bronze Bull Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose The Springfi elds Rugby Wheels A Frequent Flyer Proposes a Name Hesiod on Bushfire The Blame Singing Tour in Vietnam Midwinter Kangaroo Nests The 41st Year of 1968 Daylight Cloth The Mirrorball Infi nite Anthology Wrecked Birds At the Opera The Relative Gold The Cartoonist Manuscript Roundel Natal Grass The Fallen Golfer The Man in the White Bay Hotel Winding Up at the Bootmaker’s Acknowledgements Les Murray (1938-2019) grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales. He studied at Sydney University and later worked as a translator at the Australian National University and as an officer in the Prime Minister's Department. His real vocation was poetry, however, and ... read more Awards won by Les Murray Short-listed, 2015 T. S. Eliot Prize (Waiting for the Past ) Long-listed, 1994 for the Oxford Chair of Poetry. Winner, 1996 T.S. Eliot Prize for the best collection. (Subhuman Redneck Poems) Winner, 1999 Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Praise for Les Murray 'Les Murray's final gift to us, published exactly three years after his death, is certainly worth the wait.' André Naffis-Sahely, The Times Literary Supplement 'The earth's physical landscape...is rendered with extraordinary, often strange, beauty.' *New Yorker* 'His poetry was never less than a rough-edged hymn of praise to the ceaseless and unstoppable wonders of Creation' Michael Glover, The Tablet 'The poems in this posthumous collection are, as so often in his work, intelligent, high-spirited, coolly or crudely argued, full of small delights, often with a strong dose of wrongheadedness... Murray was that rare thing, a poet who whatever his debts seemed an original.' William Logan, The New York Times '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 'Waiting for the Past is a brilliant collection by a brilliant poet.' Anthony Domestico, Commonweal Magazine You might also be interested in: Collected Poems Les Murray	Share this... Quick Links Carcanet Poetry Carcanet Classics Carcanet Fiction Carcanet Film Lives and Letters PN Review Video Carcanet Celebrates 50 Years! The Carcanet Blog One Little Room: Peter McDonald read more Collected Poems: Mimi Khalvati read more Invisible Dog: Fabio Morbito, translated by Richard Gwyn read more Dante's Purgatorio: Philip Terry read more Billy 'Nibs' Buckshot: John Gallas read more Emotional Support Horse: Claudine Toutoungi read more
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