The Biplane Houses
This is Les Murray's first new volume of poems since 2002's Poems the Size of Photographs. In it we find Murray at his near-miraculous best. The collection exhibits both Murray's unfailing grace as a writer and his ability to write in any voice, style and genre: there are story poems, word-plays, history - and myth-makings, aphorisitc fragments and domestic portraits. As ever, Murray's evocation of the natural world is unparalleled in its inventiveness and virtuosity.
Awards:
- Shortlisted - Age Book of the Year Awards 2006
- Shortlisted - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards 2006
- Shortlisted - NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2007
Les Murray lives in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. He has published some thirty books. His work is studied in schools and universities around Australia and has been translated into several foreign languages. In 1996 he was awarded the T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry, in 1998 the Queen's Gold Medal for poetry, and in 2004 the Mondello Prize. His most recent collections of work published by Black Inc. include The Biplane Houses, Fredy Neptune, Selected Poems, Collected Poems and Killing the Black Dog. Taller When Prone is Les Murray’s first volume of new poems since 2006’s The Biplane Houses.
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