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2015
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The centerpiece of this collection of poems is "Presence," a sequence of forty "translations from the natural world" about a variety of settings and their amazing denizens. Lyre birds, honeycombs, sea lions, possums, all act as spurs for Murray's protean talent for description and imitation."Even with a score of volumes and a king's ransom of literary honors to his credit, Australian poet Murray refuses to take words for granted. His latest collection is a forceful blend of formalis...
Conscious and Verbal
Poems
2015
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A wonderful new collection by a wizard of contemporary poetryEverything widens with distance, in this perspective.The dog's paws, trotting, rotate his end of infinityand dam water feels a shiver few willow drapes share.Bright leaks through their wigwam re-purple the skinny beansthen rapidly the light tops treetops and is shortenedinto a day. Everywhere stands pat beside its shadowfor the great bald radiance never seen in dre...
Killing the Black Dog
A Memoir of Depression
2015
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In 1988, shortly after moving from Sydney back to his birthplace in the rural New South Wales hamlet of Bunyah, Les Murray was struck with depression. In the months that followed, the "Black Dog" (as he calls it) ruled his life. He raged at his wife and children. He ducked a parking ticket on grounds of insanity, and begged a police officer to shoot him rather than arrest him. For days on end he lay in despair, a state in which, as he puts it precisely, "you feel beneath help."K...
Dissection of a Murder
A Novel
2026
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**SOON TO BE THE SECOND SEASON OF THE HIT APPLE ORIGINAL SERIES, PRESUMED INNOCENT, STARRING EMMY WINNERS RACHEL BROSNAHAN & MATTHEW RHYS.Nothing is as it seems—and no one is telling the truth—in this "addictive page-turner" about a young lawyer forced to defend a man on trial for murder against the mentor who taught her everything: her husband (Alice Feeney, New York Times bestselling author).Most Anticipated by Goodreads**When Leila Reynolds is h...
Continuous Creation
Last Poems
2022
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The final collection of poems by the great Australian poet Les Murray, Continuous CreationWe bring nothing into this worldexcept our gradual abilityto create it, out of all that vanishesand all that will outlast us.In Continuous Creation, the final collection from Les Murray, the preeminent poet of modern Australia recalls moments from his youth and wryly observes the changing world, m...
Lighting the Blue Touch Paper
A Handbook for Igniting the Energy, Clarity and Performance of the Senior Leadership Team
2025
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Too many leaders wrestle with fractured teams, high staff turnover, and the nagging sense that they are not fully equipped to lead. Whether as a new director fighting imposter syndrome, a business owner desperate to scale without burning out, or an experienced executive seeking a proven framework, the truth is simple: great businesses are built by great senior leadership teams.In Lighting the Blue Touch Paper executive coach and consultant Les Murray shares a clear, step-by-step ro...
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- Dragonborn
2025
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An astonishing new fantasy series takes flight in this soaring, action-packed adventure filled with twists and surprises. The secret world of dragons is waiting for you!There is a secret world of dragons that lurks at the edges of our own. But dragons also live among us. These Slumberers have been human for so long they have forgotten their true selves—until something awakens the dragon within.Twelve-year-old Alex Evans is about to wake up.Ever sinc...
2015
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In this collection of poems, farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of the sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly perceptive, and fiercely honest, these poems surprise and bare the human in all of us.
2014
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A fresh selection of the finest poems—some previously uncollected—by one of our finest English-language poetsWhy write poetry? For the weird unemployment.For the painless headaches, that must be tapped to strikedown along your writing arm at the accumulated moment.For the adjustments after, aligning facets in a verbbefore the trance leaves you. For working always beyondyour own intel...
2017
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'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. // 'Mur...
Learning Human
Poems
2015
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A bighearted selection from the inimitable Australian poet's diverse ten-book body of workLes Murray is one of the great poets of the English language, past, present, and future. Learning Human contains the poems he considers his best: 137 poems written since 1965, presented here in roughly chronological order, and including a dozen poems published for the first time in this book.Murray has distinguished between what he calls the "Narrowspeak" of ordinary affairs, of...
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2026
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Bernard, a dysfunctional teenager from a remote Scottish fishing village, falls for Ailsa at her father's funeral-only to discover she loves someone else. After drinking a mysterious brew, Ailsa's father appears to him, triggering chilling paranormal events. As Bernard unravels the dark secrets behind her father's death and the enigmatic brew, his peculiar, often amusing perspective brings moments of quirky humor amidst the unfolding horror and mystery.