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Description for On Bunyah
Paperback. The latest collection from Australia's greatest living poet, the multiple-award-winning Les Murray, which pays homage to his rural home of Bunyah through poetry and photographs Num Pages: 160 pages, Colour photos. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JM; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Fine in fine dust wrapper. Signed and inscribed to previous owner
'Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws.' This updated edition of On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs. From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries, Les Murray evokes the life and landscape of his part of the country.
'Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws.' This updated edition of On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs. From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries, Les Murray evokes the life and landscape of his part of the country.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784104986
SKU
KSG0013905
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Les Murray
Les Murray was born in 1938 and grew up on a dairy farm at Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales, where he still lives. 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 from ... Read more
Reviews for On Bunyah
'No one writes like Murray: so truthful, nakedly emotional, wry, watchful. He's set deep in the Australian landscape, writing about back roads, vertigo, sliced bread, old typewriters and the persistence of love. Murray is the holy fool of his own poems, and a hero of poetry.' - Helen Dunmore, The Observer New Review; 'Murray is one of the very few ... Read more