by Les Murray
Discontent, Reading Conan Doyle 82
Distinguo 341
Dog Fox Field 325
Dog Skills 671
Downhill on Borrowed Skis 495
Dreambabwe 448
Driving through Sawmill Towns 10
Driving to the Adelaide Festival 1976 via the Murray Valley Highway 136
Drought Dust on the Crockery 456
Dry Water 435
Dynamic Rest 648
E
Each Morning Once More Seamless 418
Eagle Pair 355
Earth Tremor at Night 424
Easter 1984 227
Eating from the Dictionary 663
Echidna 364
Elegy for Angus Macdonald of Cnoclinn 150
Employment for the Castes in Abeyance 134
English as a Second Language 655
Equanimity 178
Equinoctial Gales at Hawthornden Castle 352
Ernest Hemingway and the Latest Quake 511
Escaping Out There 99
Eucalypts in Exile 622
Evening Alone at Bunyah 12
Experience 548
Experiential 332
Explaining a Cheese 545
Extract from a Verse Letter to Dennis Haskell 273
F
Fame 615
Farmer at Fifty 317
Fastness 248
Feb 297
Federation Style on the Northern Rivers 225
First Essay on Interest 166
Five Postcards 471
Flood Plains on the Coast Facing Asia 220
Floodtime Night Shelter 652
Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn 204
Folklore 79
For a Convert in Boston 576
For a Jacobite Lady 162
For an Eightieth Birthday 563
Forty Acre Ethno 289
Four Gaelic Poems 147
Free Kirk Cemetery, Northern New South Wales 147
Freshwater and Salt 292
From A Tourist Journal 603
From Bennett’s Head 405
From Where We Live on Presence 378
Fruit Bat Colony by Day 539
Fuel Stoppage on Gladesville Road Bridge in the Year 1980 170
Fusee 542
G
Gentrifical Force 598
Ghost Story 580
Glaze 315
Gōlōka 73
Goose to Donkey 372
Goths in Leipzig 685
Granite Country 321
Great Bole 363
Green Rose Tan 390
Grooming with Nail Clippers 675
Growth 665
Gun-E-Darr 327
H
Hall’s Cattle 69
Hastings River Cruise 326
Hayfork Point 33
Hearing Impairment 259
Hesiod on Bushfire 632
High Foliage 680
High Rise 645
High-Speed Bird 624
High Speed Trap Space 656
High Sugar 328
History of the Enlightenment 525
Holland’s Nadir 670
Homage to the Launching-place 164
Home Suite 379
Honey Cycle 373
Hoon Hoon 530
I
I Wrote A Little Haiku 647
Iguassu 537
Ill Music 18
Immigrant Voyage 156
In a Time of Cuisine 535
In Phrygia, Birthplace of Embroidery 401
In the Costume of Andalusia 503
Incorrigible Grace 55
Incunabular 465
Industrial Relations 603
Infant Among Cattle 294
Infinite Anthology 636
Infra Red 264
Inside Ayers Rock 417
Inspecting the Rivermouth 643
Inverse Ballad 266
It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen 412
J
Jellyfish 528
Jesus was a Healer 681
Jet Propulsion Stereo 602
Joker as Told 268
József 77
Judged Worth Evacuating 520
K
Kimberley Brief 347
King Lear Had Alzheimer’s 616
Kiss of the Whip 97
L
Lace Curtain 529
Lachlan Macquarie’s First Language 116
Laconics: The Forty Acres 128
Laggan Cemetery 530
Lament for the Country Soldiers 43
Last World Before the Stars 668
László 479
Late Snow in Edinburgh 213
Late Summer Fires 395
Lateral Dimensions 594
Layers of Pregnancy 356
Leaf Brims 555
Leaf Spring 282
Leash Chain 405
Letters to the Winner 241
Levities of the Short Giant 329
Life Cycle of Ideas 436
Lifestyle 586
Like the Joy at His First Lie 342
Like Wheeling Stacked Water 401
Literary Editor 489
Little Boy Impelling a Scooter 197
Lotus Dam 257
Louvres 238
Low Down Sandcastle Blues 305
Lunar Eclipse 624
Lyrebird 358
M
Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman 191
Major Sparrfelt’s Trajectory 335
Manners of the Supranation 346
Manuscript Roundel 640
Mars at Perigee 544
Maryanne Bugg 685
Masculeene, Cried the Bulls 298
Massacre’s All-Party Fuel 541
Max Fabre’s Yachts 274
Melbourne Pavement Coffee 564
Me And Je Reviens 587
MeMeMe 369
Memories of the Height-to-Weight Ratio 408
Mercurial 291
Midi 611
Midnight Lake 339
Midsummer Ice 184
Midwinter Haircut 288
Midwinter Kangaroo Nests 635
Migratory 377
Mirror-glass Skyscrapers 324
Mollusc 361
Money and the Flying Horses 649
More Pictographs 545
More Than an Obiter Dichter 473
Morse 213
Music to Me Is Like Days 462
My Ancestress and the Secret Ballot 433
Mythology 526
N
Natal Grass 641
National Dress 546
Nocturne 256
Noonday Axeman 3
Norfolk Island 592
North Country Suite 353
Novilladas Democráticas 67
Nuclear Family Bees 645
Nursing Home 614
O
O.K. Primavera Lips 664
Oasis City 482
Observing the Mute Cat 612
On Home Beaches 404
On Removing Spiderweb 329
On the Borders 509
On the Central Coast Line 563
On the North Coast Line 569
On the Present Slaughter of Feral Animals 407
On the Wreckage of a Hijacked Airliner 98
Once in a Lifetime, Snow 22
One Kneeling, One Looking Down 450
Opening in England 432
Order of Perception: West Kimberley 664
Our Dip in the Rift Valley 619
Our Week in Grand Luxe 459
Outside of the Iron Mask 542
Ovoids 614
P
Panic Attack 596
Pastoral Sketches 590
Performance 414
Persistence of the Reformation 650
Phone Canvass 615
Photographing Aspiration 565
Physiognomy on the Savage Manning River 228
Pietà Once Attributed to Cosme Tura 537
Pigs 366
Plainclothes Park 81
Poetry and
Religion 265
Poley Bullock Couplets 65
Politics and Art 335
Pop Music 539
Port Jackson Greaseproof Rose 630
Portrait of a Felspar-Coloured Cat 544
Portrait of the Autist as a New World Driver 101
Possum’s Nocturnal Day 378
Post Mortem 555
Powder of Light 653
Predawn in Health 521
Prehistory of Air 359
Presence: Translations from the Natural World 355
Pressure 588
Prime Numbers 468
Puss 369
Q
Queen Butterfly 366
Quintets for Robert Morley 175
R
Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa 667
Rainwater Tank 153
Raising an Only Child 672
Raven, sotto voce 376
Reclaim the Sites 533
Recognising the Derision as Fear 597
Recourse to the Wilderness 24
Reflection in a Military Cap Badge 545
Refusing Saul’s Armour 618
Relics of Sandy 267
Reverse Light 445
Ripe in the Arbours of the Nose 600
Robert Fergusson Night 522
Rock Music 393
Rodd Island Wedding 462
Roman Cage-cups 254
Rooms of the Sketch-Garden 512
Rostered Duty 83
Rugby Wheels 631
S
Sandstone Country 345
Sanskrit 55
Satis Passio 218
Savoury 677
Science Fiction 617
Second Essay on Interest: The Emu 201
Self-portrait from a Photograph 198
Senryu 31
Sergeant Forby Lectures the Cadets 88
Shale Country 319
Shellback Tick 370
Shoal 358
Shower 181
Sidere Mens Eadem Mutato 108
Singing Tour in Vietnam 635
Slip 333
Small Flag Above the Slaughter 495
SMLE 49
Sound Bites 501
Southern Hemisphere Garden 621
Spermaceti 372
Spital Tower 460
Spring 331
Spring Hail 8
Spurwing Plover 128
Starry Night 526
Stockman Songs 63
Stone Fruit 375
Strangler Fig 356
Succour 521
Sun Taiko 650
Sunday on a Country River 599
Sunflowers 371
Suspended Vessels 397
Sydney and the Bush 123
T
Tableau in January 2
Tanka: the Coffee Shops 130
Tap Dogs Music 654
That Evolution Proceeds by Charity and Faith 366
The 1812 Overture at Topkapi Saray 313
The Abomination 21
The Aboriginal Cricketer 551
The Action 113
The Annals of Sheer 510
The Antipodes of India 522
The Artery 60
The Assimilation of Background 330
The Averted 553
The Away-bound Train 6
The Aztec Revival 552
The Backroad Collections 654
The Ballad of Jimmy Governor 47
The Ballad of the Barbed Wire Ocean 338
The Ballad Trap 32
The Barcaldine Suite 548
The Bellwether Brush 534
The Beneficiaries 399
The Black Beaches 643
The Blame 633
The Blueprint 591
The Body in Physics 539
The Boeotian Count 65
The Bohemian Occupation 406
The Breach 86
The Broad Bean Sermon 112
The Bronze Bull 629
The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle 137
The Bulb of the Darling Lily 483
The Burning Truck 1
The Bush 64
The Butter Factory 253
The C19-20 174
The Canberra Remnant 36
The Canberra Suburbs’ Infinite Extension 93
The Canonisation 644
The Cardiff Commonwealth Arts Festival Poetry Conference 1965, Recalled 135
The Care 679
The Cartoonist 639
The Chimes of Neverwhere 205
The China Pear Trees 243
The Clear Saline of Theory 534
The Climax of Factory Farming 541
The Commercial Hotel 26
The Commonwealth of Manu 62
The Conquest 44
The Conversations 606
The Cowladder Stanzas 625
The Cows on Killing Day 367
The Craze Field 160
The Cut-Out 525
The Day I Slept Like a Dolphin 493
The Death of Isaac Nathan, 1864 609
The Derelict Milky Way 488
The Devil 440
The Dialectic of Dreams 216
The Disorderly 470
The Dog’s Bad Name 538
The Doorman 168
The Double Diamond 607
The Dragon 373
The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever 233
The Drugs of War 240
The Edge of the Forest 115
The Edgeless 240
The Emerald Dove 306
The End of Symbol 531
The Engineer Formerly Known as Strangelove 518
The Euchre Game 117
The Fair Go 534
The Fall of Aphrodite Street 302
The Fallen Golfer 641
The Family Farmers’ Victory 387
The Farm Terraces 627
The Fellow Human 379
The Filo Soles 611
The Fire Autumn 33
The Fishermen at South Head 167
The Flight from Manhattan 172
The Flute 682
The Flying-Fox Dreaming 118
The Forest Hit by Modern Use 180
The Fossil Imprint 406
The Future 153
The Gaelic Long Tunes 344
The Gallery 130
The Genetic Galaxy 446
The Genghis Firmament 679
The Glory and Decline of Bread 662
The Gods 359
The Good Plates 497
The Grandmother’s Story 270
The Grassfire Stanzas 163
The Great Cuisine Cleaver Dance Sonnet 528
The Great Hall of Chlorine 477
The Greenhouse Vanity 332
The Gum Forest 149
The Gymnast Valeria Vatkina 552
The Hanging Gardens 554
The Harleys 456
The Head-Spider 449
The Hewers 529
The Hoaxist 585
The Holy Show 496
The House Left in English 578
The Hypogeum 200
The Ice Indigene 492
The Idyll Wheel 300
The Idyll Wheel: Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, New South Wales, April 1986–April 1987 281
The Images Alone 512
The Incendiary Method 27
The Insiders 538
The Instrument 457
The International Poetry Festivals Thing 195
The International Terminal 320
The Internationale 472
The Inverse Transports 309
The Kettle’s Bubble-Making Floor 527
The Kitchen Grammars 560
The Kitchens 285
The Knockdown Question 538
The Knuckle Garden 80
The Lake Surnames 255
The Last Hellos 430
The Lieutenant of Horse Artillery 324
The Line 271
The Lips Move During Anointing 84
The Long Wet Season 505
The Machine-Gunning of Charm 540
The Maenads 399
/> The Man in the White Bay Hotel 641
The Mare Out on the Road 593
The Margin of Difference 452
The Masses 365
The Meaning of Existence 551
The Megaethon: 1850, 1906–29 245
The Milk Lorry 252
The Mirrorball 636
The Misery Cord 293
The Mitchells 117
The Moon Man 520
The Mouthless Image of God in the Hunter-Colo Mountains 208
The Mowed Hollow 485
The Muddy Trench 554
The Murders of Women 683
The Mussel Bowl 665
The Myriads 536
The Names of the Humble 57
The Narrabri Reservation 310
The Nearly Departed 442
The New Hieroglyphics 507
The New Moreton Bay 170
The Newcastle Rounds 577
The Newly Tragic Dodo 484
The Nostril Songs 570
The Ocean Baths 322
The Octave of Elephants 365
The Offshore Island 583
The Onset 538
The Paint House 530
The Past Ever Present 341
The Pay for Fosterage 536
The Physical Diaspora of William Wallace 598
The Plaster Eater 661
The Poisons of Right and Left 543
The Pole Barns 312
The Police: Seven Voices 80
The Portrait Head 400
The Powerline Incarnation 122
The Princes’ Land 16
The Privacy of Typewriters 658
The Pure Food Act 72
The Quality of Sprawl 182
The Recession of the Joneses 174
The Relative Gold 490
The Returnees 124
The Road Toll 343
The Rollover 394
The Rotterdam Flight Cage 493
The Sand Coast Sonnets 403
The Sand Dingoes 404
The Say-but-the-Word Centurion Attempts a Summary 391
The Scores 531
The Sharman Drum 605
The Shield-Scales of Heraldry 420
The Shining Slopes and Planes 581
The Sick-Bags 594
The Sleepout 236
The Smell of Coal Smoke 207
The Snake’s Heat Organ 362
The Springfields 630
The Statistics of Good 556
The Steel 185
The Succession 581
The Successive Arms 520
The Sunraysia Poems 481
The Suspect Corpse 622
The Suspension of Knock 411
The Swarm 146
The Sydney Highrise Variations 170
The Test 560
The Thirties 676
The Tin Clothes 519
The Tin Wash Dish 308
The Top Alcohol Contender 543
The Toppled Head 605
The Trainee, 1914 2
The Trances 438
The Transposition of Clermont 301
The Tube 318
The Tune On Your Mind 561
The Up-to-date Scarecrow 312
The Vol Sprung from Heraldry 244
The Warm Rain 442
The Water Column 398
The Water Plough 474
The Wedding at Berrico 380
The Welter 566
The Widower in the Country 3
The Year of the Kiln Portraits 422
The Young Fox 547
The Young Woman Visitor 270
Their Cities, Their Universities 94
