>"Les Murray writing of
>Martin Johnston's To the Innate Island:-
>
>"It's wonderfully rich, evocative and vivacious, but I
>fear
> you've left the poetry out"
>
>
>Les can keep his poetry!
>I prefer Martin Johnston any day
>Could Les Murray ever give a poem a title like 'The
>Blood Aquarium'????
>Or how about
>"On Zeeland shore a whale rots, waiting for Durer"
>
>That's worth the complete works of Murray, Heaney (the
>Murray of Ireland, with all that implies?) and the
>rest of the 21st century patoralist nationalists.
Yes. AND no.
There are a lot of Australian poets I read more than I do Murray, & I do
abhor most if not all of his politics, but it's far too easy to dismiss the
peotry out of hand. I would argue for a Selected that would stand with any
around today (but of course I would want to make that selection)...
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
And all of the time you are seeing these things she
sings 'not
loudly but with authority'
Michael Palmer
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