I like to say that I worked with Les Murray at Australia’s Quadrant magazine. He was literary editor; I was an editorial assistant to John O’Sullivan. In fact, I never interacted with him once. You ...

Les Murray’s posthumous collection “Continuous Creation” highlights both his crankiness and the rough magnificence of the landscape he loved. By William Logan When you purchase an independently ...

I read from The Collected Poems of Les Murray on my long flight home today — a gift from one of my new Australian friends. This poem really hit me hard. Murray was terribly bullied in his teenage ...

The story of the great Australian poet Les Murray is one of oblique angles, of seeing things slant, of being not-quite-right. In a country that, like most other countries, takes its cultural bearings ...

SYDNEY — Les Murray, an Australian poet with an international reputation and an extraordinary intellect whose subjects included death, his native bushland, wry social commentary and autobiographical ...

This first career selection since 2000 from the man who is arguably (and controversially) Australia’s national poet gives U.S. readers another chance to see what makes him original, ambitious, ...