Waiting for the Past
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Waiting for the Past
By (Author) Les Murray
Black Inc.
Black Inc.
25th March 2015
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
821.914
Short-listed for T S Eliot Prize 2015
Physical Properties
Hardback
96
Width 142mm, Height 217mm, Spine 15mm
280g
Description
Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to '1960 Brought the Electric', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. Les Murray's new volume of poems - his first in five years - continues his use of molten language. From 'The Black Beaches' to 'Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa', from 'High Speed Trap Space' to '1960 Brought the Electric', this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. 'No poet has ever travelled like this, whether in reality or simply in mind ... Seeing the shape or hearing the sound of one thing in another, he finds forms.' CLIVE JAMES
Reviews
'No poet has ever travelled like this, whether in reality or simply in mind ...Seeing the shape or hearing the sound of one thing in another, he finds forms.' - CLIVE JAMES
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