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Thursday 08 April
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Taller When Prone is Les Murray’s first volume of new poems since 2006’s The Biplane Houses.
With characteristic grace and dexterity, these poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life here and abroad its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape and the people who have shaped it.
There are travellers' tales, elegies, meditative fragments and satirical sketches. Above all there is Murray’s astonishing versatility, on display here at its exhilarating best.
Les Murray will be introduced by Lisa Gorton.
Featuring
Les Murray
Les Murray is Australia’s leading poet. In 2015, his first new collection of poems in five years will be published, Waiting for the Past. Bunyah will follow later in the year, a collection that brings together the poems Murray has written about the place where he comes from and by extension about the rural life and small communities of Australia.
He has previously published fourteen books of verse in Australia. His work is studied in schools and universities in Australia and beyond.
Lisa Gorton
Lisa Gorton’s first collection, Press Release, was shortlisted for the Mary Gilmore Award and the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award, and won the Victorian Premier’s Prize for Poetry.
She completed a doctorate on John Donne’s poetry and prose. She has also written a novel for children, Cloudland.
Gorton lives in Melbourne.