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The Daylight Moon and Other Poems (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Americans seem to have an inexhaustible appetite for all things Australian, especially Australian films—and film stars. While Les Murray must certainly be accounted a major poet of the English language, whose poetry is universal enough to transcend his native roots, his work is nevertheless Australian in subject matter, attitude, and language. For the American reader, this easily accessible world, marked by its slightly exotic speech, is all the more interesting because of Murray’s outlook.

Murray is no mere cataloger of the flora and fauna of the Australian outback, or a...

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