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The People's Otherworld : Poems (1983) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Les Murray. [1] Contents. The anthology contains 44 poems, all original. "The Craze Field of Dried Mud" "The Grassfire Stanzas" "Homage to the Launching-Place" "First Essay on Interest" "The Fishermen at South Head" "The Doorman"
x, 68 pages ; 24 cm
Les Murray (1938 – 2019) grew up the only son of poor farmers in a remote valley in New South Wales. It was a hard background but one that instilled in him a love of the landscape and people of rural Australia which informed his poetry ever since. Despite unhappy times in his final school, Murray won a scholarship to the University of Sydney.
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Les Murray Poems. 1. An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow. The word goes round Repins, the murmur goes round Lorenzinis, at Tattersalls, men look up from sheets of numbers, the Stock Exchange scribblers forget the chalk in their hands.
The title he chose for his Selected Poems, The Vernacular Republic, indicates both this sense of unity and his Wordsworthian belief that through the use of 'language really spoken by men' poets can speak to and for the people.
The People's Underworld by Les Murray, 1983 Cecil’s elegy made me turn back a hundred-odd pages to The People’s Otherworld (1983) and reread the three celebrated poems Murray wrote in memory of his mother, who died when he was a boy.
