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Taller When Prone

Taller When Prone

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By Les Murray

Winner, 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature

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 traveller’s tales, elegies, meditative fragments and satirical sketches. Above all there is Murray’s astonishing versatility, on display here at its exhilarating best.

  • Winner of the John Bray Poetry Award in the 2012 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
  • Shortlisted, 2010 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards
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ISBN: 9781863954709
Published: 2010
Format: Paperback
Pages: 89
Publisher: Black Inc
Dimensions: 0.9 x 13.7 x 21.1cm

About the author:

Les Murray (1938–2019) lived in Bunyah, near Taree in New South Wales. The author of 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 he won the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and in 2004 he was awarded the Mondello Prize. His most recent volumes include The Biplane Houses, Taller When Prone and Waiting for the Past. Other works include Fredy Neptune, Collected Poems, The Best 100 Poems, Killing the Black Dog and On Bunyah.

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