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In this collection, Australian poet Les Murray challenges himself to write an elegy for his father, and to write about his altering country, its history, landscapes and peoples.

A new collection of poetry from the major Australian writer, published by Carcanet Press.

Considerato uno dei massimi poeti contemporanei di lingua inglese, Murray è portavoce e interprete dell'anima australiana, appassionato custode dei suoi valori originari e più nobili e, al tempo stesso, critico pungente delle sue debolezze. Nella dedica "alla gloria di Dio" che da anni apre le sue opere, si condensa l'impulso primario della sua poesia: la celebrazione dell'esistente in quanto creazione di un Dio generoso. Una celebrazione affi...

Winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize for the Best Book of Poetry in English Joseph Brodsky once said of Les Murray: "He is, quite simply, the one by whom the language lives." In these darkly funny and deeply observant "Subhuman Redneck Poems, " farmers, fathers, poverty-stricken pioneers, and people blackened by the grist of sugar mills are exposed to the blazing midday sun of Murray's linguistic powers. Richly inventive, tenderly detailed, a...

When German-Australian sailor Friedrich "Fredy" Boettcher is shanghaied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age.Told in a blue-collar English...

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