The Rabbiter’s Bounty (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Les A. Murray
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Language or languages, Family or family life, Wit or humor, Animals, Nostalgia, Joy or sorrow, Australia or Australians, Portraits
Les Murray, the most celebrated poet of Australia, belongs to a select company of postmodern writers who have extended the range and potency of the English language, even though their native country is not Great Britain. Such writers include the distinguished novelists Nadine Gordimer, V. S. Naipaul, and Kazuo Ishiguro, and the poets Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott. Like these award-winning authors, Les Murray brings a keen and unbiased eye to the events of the postcolonial world, a curiously international milieu in which high technology allows the daily mixing of American English,...
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