Les Murray wrote Australian poetry about rural life, animals, religion, class, language and people often overlooked by metropolitan literary culture. The Vernacular Republic and Subhuman Redneck Poems show his range from comic observation to formal lyric and long meditative sequences. Murray's poems can be dense with local speech, technical vocabulary and sudden shifts in scale, moving from farm machinery or livestock to theology and national identity. Readers browsing Australian poetry, rural writing and technically inventive verse where humour, landscape and social argument often occupy the same poem are the closest match. Read more Less
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