David McCooey Reviews Les Murray – Fairfax

Our colleague David McCooey recently reviewed legendary Aussie poet Les Murray’s latest offering, Collected Poems (Black Inc.), for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

“Murray’s work is deeply ‘local’ in its engagement with Australian milieus, themes, and histories,” writes David. “But [his] poetry is also intensely transnational, taking in world history (natural, social, religious, and political) and non-Anglophone languages and literatures… From the epigram to the epic, Murray demonstrates an astonishing linguistic inventiveness.” Read the full review >