Les Murray (poet) - Wikipedia Les Murray (poet) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Australian poet and critic (1938-2019) This article is about the poet. For the sports broadcaster, see Les Murray (broadcaster). Les Murray AO Murray in 2004 Born (1938-10-17)17 October 1938 Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia Died 29 April 2019(2019-04-29) (aged 80) Taree, New South Wales, Australia Occupation Poet Education Taree High School Alma mater University of Sydney Genre Poetry Spouse Valerie Morelli ​ (m. 1962)​ Children 5 Website lesmurray.org Leslie Allan Murray AO (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist, and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings. Translations of Murray's poetry have been published in 11 languages: French, German, Italian, Catalan, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Hindi, Russian, and Dutch.[1] Murray's poetry won many awards and he is regarded as "the leading Australian poet of his generation".[2][3] He was rated in 1997 by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures.[4][5] Contents 1 Life and career 2 Literary career 3 Poetry 4 Themes and subjects 5 Controversies 6 Adaptations 7 Awards and nominations 8 Works 8.1 Poetry collections 8.2 Collections as editor 8.3 Verse novels 8.4 Prose collections 9 See also 10 Notes 11 External links Life and career[edit] Les Murray was born in Nabiac on the North Coast of New South Wales and grew up in the neighbouring district of Bunyah. He attended primary and early high school in Nabiac and then attended Taree High School. At age 18, while watching mayflies along the river, he decided he would become a poet.[6] In 1957 he began study at the University of Sydney in the Faculty of Arts and joined the Royal Australian Navy Reserve to obtain a small income. Speaking about this time to Clive James he has said: "I was as soft-headed as you could imagine. I was actually hanging on to childhood because I hadn't had much teenage. My Mum died and my father collapsed. I had to look after him. So I was off the chain at last, I was in Sydney and I didn't quite know how to do adulthood or teenage. I was being coltish and foolish and childlike. I received the least distinguished degree Sydney ever issued. I don't think anyone's ever matched it."[7] In 1961 The Bulletin published one of his poems.[6] He developed an interest in ancient and modern languages, which qualified him to become a professional translator at the Australian National University (where he was employed from 1963 to 1967). During his studies he met other poets and writers such as Geoffrey Lehmann, Bob Ellis,[8][9] Clive James and Lex Banning as well as future political journalists Laurie Oakes and Mungo McCallum Jr. Between times, he hitch-hiked around Australia and lived for several months at a Sydney Push household at Milsons Point,[10]:97–99 where he was introduced to Virgil's Eclogues by his poetically inclined host, Brian Jenkins.[10]:120 He returned to undergraduate studies in the 1960s and became a Roman Catholic when he married Budapest-born fellow-student Valerie Morelli in 1962. They lived in Wales and Scotland and travelled in Europe for over a year in the late 1960s. They had five children together. In 1971, Murray resigned from his "respectable cover occupations" of translator and public servant in Canberra (1970) to write poetry full-time.[8] The family returned to Sydney, but Murray, planning to return to his home at Bunyah, managed to buy back part of the lost family home in 1975 and to visit there intermittently until 1985 when he and his family returned to live there permanently.[9] Murray died on 29 April 2019 at a Taree, New South Wales, nursing home at the age of 80.[11][12] Literary career[edit] Murray had a long career in poetry and literary journalism in Australia. When he was 38 years old, his Selected Poems was published by Angus & Robertson, alongside respected Australian poets such as Christopher Brennan, A. D. Hope, Kenneth Slessor and Judith Wright, signifying his emergence as a leading poet.[2] His poetry has received both praise and criticism. The biographer Peter Alexander has written that "all Murray’s volumes are uneven, though as Bruce Clunies Ross would remark, 'There's "less good" and "good", but it's very hard to find really inferior Murray'."[13] When Murray was a student at the University of Sydney he was the editor of Hermes, with Geoffrey Lehmann (1962)[14]. Murray edited the magazine Poetry Australia (1973–79).[9] During his tenure as poetry editor for Angus & Robertson (1976–90) he was responsible for publishing the first book of poetry by Philip Hodgins. In 1991 he became literary editor of Quadrant. He edited several anthologies, including the Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry. First published in 1986, it proved popular with readers, resulting in a second edition being published in 1991. It interprets religion loosely[9] and includes the work of many of Australia's well-known poets, such A. D. Hope, Judith Wright, Rosemary Dobson, Kevin Hart, Bruce Dawe, and himself. The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse was most recently re-issued in 1996. Murray described himself, perhaps half-jokingly, as the last of the "Jindyworobaks", an Australian literary movement whose white members sought to promote indigenous Australian ideas and customs, particularly in poetry.[8] Though not a member, he was influenced by their work, something that is frequently discussed by Murray critics and scholars in relation to his themes and sensibilities. In 2007, Dan Chiasson wrote in The New Yorker that Murray was "now routinely mentioned among the three or four leading English-language poets".[15] Murray was talked of as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.[16] He retired from his position as literary editor of Quadrant in late 2018 for health reasons.[17] Poetry[edit] Murray published around 30 volumes of poetry and is often called Australia's Bush-bard. The academic David McCooey described Murray in 2002 as "a traditional poet whose work is radically original".[18] His poetry is rich and diverse, while also exhibiting "an obvious unity and wholeness" based on "his consistent commitment to the ideals and values of what he sees as the real Australia".[9] He is almost universally praised for his linguistic dexterity, poetic skill and humour. However, these same reviewers and critics tend to be more questioning when they start discussing his themes and subject matter. While admiring Murray's linguistic skill and poetic achievement, poet John Tranter, in 1977, also expressed uneasiness about some aspects of his work. Tranter praises Murray's "good humour" and concludes that "For all my disagreements, and many of them are profound, I found the Vernacular Republic full of rich and complex poetry."[2] Bourke writes that: Murray's strength is the dramatization of general ideas and the description of animals, machines, or landscape. At times his immense self-confidence produces garrulity and sweeping, dismissive prescriptions. The most attractive poems show enormous powers of invention, lively play with language, and command of rhythm and idiom. In these poems Murray invariably explores social questions through a celebration of common objects from the natural world, as in "The Broad Bean Sermon", or machines, as in "Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman". Always concerned with a "common reader", Murray's later poetry (for example, Dog Fox Field, 1990, Translations from the Natural World, 1992) recovers "populist" conventions of newspaper verse, singsong rhyme, and doggerel.[8] American reviewer Albert Mobilio writes in his review of Learning Human: Selected Poems that Murray revived the traditional ballad form. He goes on to comment on Murray's conservatism and his humour: "Because his conservatism is imbued with an angular, self-mocking wit, which very nearly belies the down-home values being expressed, he catches readers up in the joke. We end up delighted by his dexterity, if a bit doubtful about the end to which it's been put."[19] In 2003, Australian poet Peter Porter, reviewing Murray's New Collected Poems, makes a somewhat similar paradoxical assessment of Murray: "A skewer of polemic runs through his work. His brilliant manipulation of language, his ability to turn words into installations of reality, is often forced to hang on an embarrassing moral sharpness. The parts we love – the Donne-like baroque – live side by side with sentiments we don't: his increasingly automatic opposition to liberalism and intellectuality."[20] Themes and subjects[edit] Twelve years after Murray's induced birth, his mother miscarried and, after the doctor failed to call an ambulance, died. Literary critic Lawrence Bourke writes that "Murray, linking his birth to her death, traces his poetic vocation from these traumatic events, seeing in them the relegation of the rural poor by urban élites. Dispossession, relegation, and independence become major preoccupations of his poetry".[8] Beyond this, though, his poetry is generally seen to have a nationalistic bent. The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature writes that: The continuing themes of much of his poetry are those inherent in that traditional nationalistic identity – respect, even reverence, for the pioneers; the importance of the land and its shaping influence on the Australian character, down-to-earth, laconic ... and based on such Bush-bred qualities as egalitarianism, practicality, straight-forwardness and independence; special respect for that Australian character in action in wartime ... and a brook-no-argument preference for the rural life over the sterile and corrupting urban environment.[9] Of his literary journalism, Bourke writes that "In a lively, frequently polemic prose style he promotes republicanism, patronage, Gaelic bardic poetry, warrior virtu, mysticism, and Aboriginal models, and attacks modernism and feminism."[8] Controversies[edit] In 1972, Murray was one of a group of Sydney activists who launched the Australian Commonwealth Party,[10]:144–145 and authored its unusually idealistic campaign manifesto. During the 1970s he opposed the New Poetry or "literary modernism" which emerged in Australia at that time, and was a major contributor to what is known in Australian poetry circles as "the poetry wars". "One of his complaints against post-modernism was that it removed poetry from widespread, popular readership, leaving it the domain of a small intellectual clique".[9] As American reviewer Albert Mobilio describes it, Murray "waged a campaign for accessibility".[19] In 1995, he became involved in the Demidenko/Darville affair, in which it was discovered that Helen Darville, who had won several major literary awards for her novel The Hand That Signed the Paper was not the daughter of a Ukrainian immigrant, as she had said, but the child of English migrants. Murray said of Darville that "She was a young girl, and her book mightn't have been the best in the world, but it was pretty damn good for a girl of her age [20 when she wrote it]. And her marketing strategy of pretending to be a Ukrainian might have been unwise, but it sure did expose the pretensions of the multicultural industry". Biographer Alexander writes that in his poem "A Deployment of Fashion", Murray linked "the attack on Darville with the wider phenomenon of attacks on those judged outcasts (from Lindy Chamberlain to Pauline Hanson) by society’s fashion police, the journalists, academics and others who form opinion (p.282).[13] In 1996, he was embroiled in a controversy about whether Australian historian Manning Clark had received and regularly worn the medal of the Order of Lenin (p 276).[13] Adaptations[edit] In 2005, a short experimental film called The Widower, based on five poems by Murray, was released. It was directed by Kevin Lucas and written by singer-festival director, Lyndon Terracini, with music by Elena Kats-Chernin. Its cast included Chris Haywood and indigenous Australian actor and dancer Frances Rings. The five poems used for the film are "Evening Alone at Bunyah", "Noonday Axeman", "The Widower in the Country", "Cowyard Gates" and "The Last Hellos". Sydney Morning Herald reviewer, Paul Byrnes concludes his review with: The film is stunningly beautiful at times, and wildly ambitious, an attempt to be both wordless and wordy, to get to the hypnotic state that poetry and music can induce while saying something meaningful about black and white attitudes to land and love. This last part, as I read Murray, is largely imposed and disruptive, trying to pin a romantic political agenda to the work that's hardly there. It makes the film too literal, too current, when it wants to lodge itself in the more mysterious part of the brain. The film still has a power – Haywood's performance is magnificent – but it never achieves a strong inner reality. It falls short of its own tall ambitions.[21] Awards and nominations[edit] 1984 – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The People's Other World 1989 – Creative Arts Fellowship 1989 – Officer of the Order of Australia for services to Australian literature[22] 1990 – Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Dog Fox Field 1993 – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Translations from the Natural World 1995 – Petrarca-Preis (Petrarch Prize) 1996 – T. S. Eliot Prize for Subhuman Redneck Poems 1997 – Rated by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures.[4][5] 1998 – Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2001 – shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize for Learning Human 2002 – shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize for Conscious & Verbal 2005 – Premio Mondello, Italy for Fredy Neptune Works[edit] Poetry collections[edit] 1965: The Ilex Tree (with Geoffrey Lehmann), Canberra, ANU Press[23] 1969: The Weatherboard Cathedral, Sydney, Angus & Robertson[23] 1972: Poems Against Economics, Angus & Robertson[23] 1974: Lunch and Counter Lunch, Angus & Robertson[23] 1976: Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic, Angus & Robertson[23] 1977: Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson[23] 1982: Equanimities 1982: The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961–1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988[23] 1983: Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn 1983: The People's Otherworld, Angus & Robertson[23] 1986: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press[23] 1987: The Daylight Moon, Angus & Robertson, 1987; Carcanet Press 1988 and Persea Books, 1988[23] 1994: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia[23] 1989: The Idyll Wheel 1990: Dog Fox Field Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet Press, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993[23] 1991: Collected Poems, Angus & Robertson, 1991; Carcanet Press, 1991; London, Minerva, 1992 and (released as The Rabbiter's Bounty, Collected Poems), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991[23] 1992: Translations from the Natural World, Paddington: Isabella Press, 1992; Carcanet Press, 1993 and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994[23] 1994: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia[23] 1996: Late Summer Fires 1996: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press 1996: Subhuman Redneck Poems[23] 1997: Killing the Black Dog, Black Inc Publishing 1999: New Selected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove[23] 1999: Conscious and Verbal, Duffy & Snellgrove[23] 2000: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow 2001: Learning Human: New Selected Poems (Poetry pleiade), Farrar, Straus and Giroux,[24] Carcanet[25] 2002: Poems the Size of Photographs, Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet Press 2002: New Collected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet Press, 2003 2006: The Biplane Houses, Carcanet Press.[26] Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008 2010: Taller When Prone, Black Inc Publishing 2011: Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 86 pp (autobiographical)[3] 2012: The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray, Black Inc Publishing[27] 2014: New Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015: Waiting for the Past, Carcanet 2015: On Bunyah, Black Inc Publishing[28] 2018: Collected Poems, Black Inc Publishing Collections as editor[edit] 1986: Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry (editor), Melbourne, Collins Dove, 1986 (new edition, 1991)[23] 1991: The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Melbourne,Oxford University Press, 1986 and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, 1999[23] 1994: Fivefathers, Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era, Carcanet Press[23] 2005: Hell and After, Four early English-language poets of Australia Carcanet[23] 2005: Best Australian Poems 2004, Melbourne, Black Inc.[23] 2012: The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001–2010, Sydney, Quadrant Books[23] Verse novels[edit] 1979: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, Angus & Robertson, 1979, 1980 and Manchester, Carcanet, 1989[23] 1999: Fredy Neptune, Carcanet and Duffy & Snellgrove[23] Prose collections[edit] 1978: The Peasant Mandarin, St. Lucia, UQP[23] 1984: Persistence in Folly: Selected Prose Writings, Angus & Robertson[23] 1984: The Australian Year: The Chronicle of our Seasons and Celebrations, Angus & Robertson[23] 1990: Blocks and Tackles, Angus & Robertson[23] 1992: The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose, Carcanet; Minerva, 1993[23] 1999: The Quality of Sprawl: Thoughts about Australia, Duffy & Snellgrove[23] 2000: A Working Forest, essays, Duffy & Snellgrove[23] 2002: The Full Dress, An Encounter with the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia[23] See also[edit] Poetry portal List of Australian poets Notes[edit] ^ http://lesmurray.org/ ^ a b c "Redirection page, jt.com to jt.net". johntranter.com. ^ a b Coetzee J. M. (29 September 2011). "The Angry Genius of Les Murray". The New York Review of Books. pp. 3, "is widely acknowledged to be the leading Australian poet of his generation". Retrieved 13 September 2011. ^ a b National Living Treasures – Current List, Deceased, Formerly Listed, National Trust of Australia (NSW), 22 August 2014 ^ a b MAMAMIA TEAM (12 March 2012). "100 National Living Treasures: Who's missing?". Retrieved 12 May 2019. ^ a b "Obituary: Les Murray died on April 29th," The Economist, 9 May 2019. ^ Speaking to Clive James on stage at the Royal Festival Hall, London, during 'Poetry International', 6–14 October 2000 ^ a b c d e f Lawrence Bourke's Les Murray Overview ^ a b c d e f g Wilde W., Hooton J., Andrews, B (1994). The Oxford Companion of Australian Literature 2nd ed. South Melbourne, Oxford University Press ^ a b c Alexander, Peter F. Les Murray: a Life in Progress. Oxford University Press UK, 2000 ^ "Australian poet Les Murray dies at 80". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2019. ^ "Les Murray, Australian poet, dies aged 80". The Sydney Morning Herald. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2019. ^ a b c Alexander, Peter F. "Forgiving the Victim, 1996–1998" (excerpt from Les Murray: A Life In Progress, pp 276–286)] ^ "Hermes 1962". University of Sydney Library. Retrieved 30 April 2019. ^ Chaissen, Dan (2007) "Fire Down Below: The Poetry of Les Murray", The New Yorker', 11 June 2007] ^ "Blogposts". The Guardian. ^ "Clive James tribute on Les Murray's retirement", Quadrant, December 2018, p. 3. ^ "Les is more". The Age. 18 March 2002. ^ a b Mobilio, Albert (12 March 2000). "Down Home Down Under". The New York Times. ^ Porter, Peter (15 March 2003). "Review: New Collected Poems by Les Murray". The Guardian. ^ "The Widower". The Sydney Morning Herald. 30 June 2005. ^ "It's an Honour – 26 January 1989". Australian Government. Retrieved 8 March 2008. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah Les Murray Archived 13 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine at The Poetry Archive website ^ Learning Human at Macmillan ^ "Carcanet Press - Learning Human: New Selected Poems". carcanet.co.uk. ^ "Carcanet Press - The Biplane Houses". carcanet.co.uk. ^ The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray, Black Inc ^ On Bunyah, Black Inc External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Les Murray. Official website Profile at the Poetry Archive, with poems written and audio. Profile of Murray with poems and audio at Poets.org. Retrieved 2011-01-03 Profile and poems at the Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2011-01-03 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, poem and audio files. Murray poems written and audio. Retrieved 2011-01-03 New Les Murray poems (April 2013) in Qualm "A life in writing: Les Murray" Guardian profile 20 November 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-03 Les Murray profile at Macmillan (US publishers). Retrieved 2011-01-03 Dennis O'Driscoll (Spring 2005). "Les Murray, The Art of Poetry No. 89". The Paris Review. Five videos of Murray reading poems on SlowTV (Australia). 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