http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/events/event/1226
Les Murray
Poetry Society Annual Lecture -
Infinite Anthology: Adventures in Lexiconia
In a rare UK appearance, Australian poet Les Murray gives the Poetry Society's
annual lecture, in which he'll explore his life-long fascination with word-
collecting. From the folk words and country speech he heard as a child, to the
new coinages he collects for the Macquarie Dictionary, Murray explains how he
has used poetry as a word-store. From rangas and pobbledonks to belly leggings
and jail tats Murray serves up some of the words that have most inspired him,
while discussing how he's chosen to direct each word's unique potency. He
finishes the evening with a poetry reading.
Les Murray is one of the "super-league" of world poets writing today. The son of
a tenant farmer, Les Murray was born in 1938 on the remote north coast of New
South Wales. He still lives nearby at Bunyah. The winner of the Queen's Gold
Medal for Poetry, he has published over 30 volumes of poetry and been translated
into ten languages.
"There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so
broad-leafed in its pleasures, and yet so intimate and so conversational." Derek
Walcott on Les Murray.
For more information about Les Murray see: www.lesmurray.org
£12 (£8 Poetry Society members and concessions). Please click 'Buy Tickets' on
the right to purchase tickets.
Arranged with the help of the Institute of English Studies, University of
London.
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