| Les Murray (b. 1938) grew up the only son of poor farmers in a remote valley in New South Wales. It was a hard background but one that instilled in him a love of the landscape and people of rural Australia which has informed his poetry ever since. Despite unhappy times in his final school, Murray won a scholarship to the University of Sydney. His first published collection, The Ilex Tree, (co-published with Geoffrey Lehmann) appeared in 1965 and has been followed by a steady succession of books that have built Murray a formidable reputation as his country's unofficial national poet. Having lived in Sydney for many years, in 1988 Murray returned to live near his childhood home.
1 The Sleepout 1.10
2 The Pure Food Act 1.27
3 An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow 2.47
4 The Powerline Incarnation 2.20
5 Employment for the Castes in Abeyance 2.32
6 The Future 1.50
7 Midsummer Ice 1.12
8 Time Travel 1.49
9 Hearing Impairment 2.03
10 Poetry and Religion 1.17
11 The Tin Wash Dish 1.23
12 High Sugar 0.43
13 On Removing Spiderweb 0.31
14 Bats' Ultrasound 1.11
15 Mollusc 0.53
16 It Allows A Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen 4.05
17 The Shield-Scales of Heraldry 2.07
18 Tympan Alley 1.12
19 Burning Want 1.58
20 The Last Hellos 2.32
21 Cotton Flannelette 1.57
22 One Kneeling, One Looking Down 2.45
23 The Margin of Difference 0.18
24 The Harleys 0.40
25 The Holy Show 1.08
26 Music to Me is like Days 1.55
27 Rodd Island Wedding 1.05
28 In the Costume of Andalusia 1.29
29 On the Borders 0.52
30 The Annals of Sheer 1.16
31 Ernest Hemingway and the Latest Quake 1.19
32 The Images Alone 0.56
33 The Tin Clothes 0.15
34 The Moon Man 0.42
35 Succour 0.30
36 Predawn in Health 0.25
37 Visitor 0.11
38 Starry Night 0.16
39 Jellyfish 0.17
40 Lace Curtain 0.27
41 A Countryman 0.13
42 In a Time of Cuisine 0.14
43 The Pay for Fosterage 0.33
44 A Study of the Nude 0.36
45 The Knockdown Question 0.17
46 Pop Music 0.26
47 The Body in Physics 0.40
48 The Climax of Factory Farming 0.23
49 The Poisons of Right and Left 0.16
50 Apsley Falls 0.21
51 Portrait of a Felspar-Coloured Cat 0.22
52 Explaining a Cheese 0.13
53 A Shrine House 0.41
54 Experience 0.26
55 The Meaning of Existence 0.26
Total length of the recording 60.00
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