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Murray, Les A., 1938-2019

LC control no.n 50034270
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LC classificationPR9619.3.M83
Personal name headingMurray, Les A., 1938-2019
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Variant(s)Murray, Leslie Allan, 1938-2019
Murray, Les, 1938-2019
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Associated countryAustralia
LocatedBunyah (N.S.W.) New South Wales
Sydney (N.S.W.)
Birth date1938-10-17
Death date2019-04-29
Place of birthNabiac (N.S.W.)
Place of deathTaree (N.S.W.)
Field of activityPoetry Criticism
Profession or occupationPoets Critics
Found inHis The ilex tree, 1965.
His Persistence in folly, 1984: t.p. (Les A. Murray) Aus CIP (Murray, Les A. (Leslie Allan), 1938- )
His The rabbiter's bounty, 1991: CIP t.p. (Les Murray) data sheet (Les A. Murray; b. 1938)
Conscious and verbal, 1999: title page (Les Murray)
The biplane houses, 2007: t.p. (Les Murray)
New selected poems, 2014: title page (Les Murray)
Les Murray website, January 13, 2016: home page (Les Murray; Australia's leading poet and one of the greatest contemporary poets writing in English) A brief biography (Leslie Allan Murray was born in 1938 in Nabiac, a village on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, and spent his childhood and youth on his father's dairy farm nearby; one of Australia's most influential literary critics; until 1988 he lived chiefly in Sydney; from that year on he has made his home on a small farm just a few miles from where he spent his boyhood)
   <http://www.lesmurray.org/>
Wikipedia, January 13, 2016: Les Murray (poet) (Leslie Allan "Les" Murray AO (born 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic; born in Nabiac on the North Coast of New South Wales and grew up in the neighbouring district of Bunyah where he currently resides; occupation: Poet; known for: Poetry)
New York times WWW site, viewed May 6, 2019 (in obituary published May 2: Les Murray; b. Leslie Allan Murray, Oct. 17, 1938, Nabiac, N.S.W.; grew up in the isolated nearby valley town of Bunyah; d. Monday [Apr. 29, 2019], Taree, N.S.W., aged 80; Australian poet with an international reputation and an extraordinary intellect whose verse ruminated on death, his native bushland, and his own turbulent life)
Associated languageeng