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

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
    Weights    
    Midsummer Ice    
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    
Antarctia    
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    


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