Les Murray

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.

Presenters

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.

Les Murray

Les Murray has published some 30 books in Australia and abroad, and he works part-time on the Macquarie Dictionary.