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    Les Murray: Taller When Prone

    A poem from the new collection.

    Fame

    We were at dinner in Soho
    and the couple at the next table
    rose to go. The woman paused to say
    to me: I just wanted you to know
    I have got all your cook books
    and I swear by them!

    I managed
    to answer her: Ma’am
    they’ve done you nothing but good!
    which was perhaps immodest
    of whoever I am.

    Les Murray’s new volume of poems, Taller When Prone, is to be published in Australia in April, 2010 by Black Inc, and is his first collection 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 – its rhythms and rituals, the natural world, the landscape and the people who have shaped it. There are traveller’s tales, elegies, meditative fragments and satirical sketches.

    Above all, there is Murray’s astonishing versatility, on display here at its exhilarating best.

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