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This graded mathematics series leading to GCSE, developed alongside National Curriculum mathematics, aims to provide full coverage of current syllabuses at Foundation and Intermediate levels and to encourage different methods of calculation - mental, pencil and paper, and electronic. The books in the series are written for a whole ability range, and the answer booklets are published as separate booklets throughout the course, allowing the teacher flexibility of marking arrangements. ... Read more

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This graded mathematics series leading to GCSE, developed alongside National Curriculum mathematics, aims to provide full coverage of current syllabuses at Foundation and Intermediate levels and to encourage different methods of calculation - mental, pencil and paper, and electronic. The books in the series are written for a whole ability range, and the answer booklets are published as separate booklets throughout the course, allowing the teacher flexibility of marking arrangements. ... Read more

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Brief, that place in the year
when a blossoming pear tree
with its sweet laundered scent
reinhabits wooden roads
that arch and diverge up
into electronic snow city.
--"Brief, That Place in the Year"


In Poems The Size of Photographs, Les Murray deftly maneuvers through familiar themes--the local terrain of the Australian people, politics, and landscape, as well as the terrain that is harder to render tangible: history, myth, and symbol. As if trying to find the fissure through which to crack open his subject matter, Murray has sharpened his form to an ideogrammatic brevity. Each snapshot-like poem in this volume develops before the reader's very eyes, as the initially observed object or moment in time changes meaning and grows in complexity and resonance line by line.
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Review for Poems the Size of Photographs
I bought a used copy for cheap as I needed the book for my English class. I expected it to be beaten and old, with the jacket torn if it still even had its original covering. But what I got was a book in great condition. It looked completely new, and every page was straight and clean. It also came in really fast.

Murmurs from the Darkroom
Les Murray is an iconoclast poet. His style is very much his own and while his precedents are apparent in ee cummings, John Berryman, and even Gerard Manley Hopkins, his voice remains one of a singer on the plains of the Australian landscape.This collection of short poems forces him (by choice) into brevity and for him this is not an easy assignment.Each poem is indeed like a photograph of a captured thought or sight or flight of fancy that he then gives to us as though we are in his darkroom, watching the meanings alter with each bath solution.Example:
"THE MEANING OF EXISTENCE Everything except language/knows the meaning of existence./Trees, plants, rivers, time/know nothing else. They express it/moment by moment as the universe.//
Even this fool of a body/lives it in part, and would/have full dignity within it/but for the ignorant freedom/of my talking mind."Terse, funny, touching, self critical.....this is a warm little volume of beautifully wrought poems.Makes you want more.

good book
This sells so much less than his selected poems, it's absurd.It's not as if the selected poems is the only worthwhile writing of his.The sounds of this book are intense, so great; from the beginning all the way though, he has a powerful ear.& the thoughts & poetry his mind offers in this book are so crazy.It often flirts with nature poetry, but it is not nature poetry (don't worry).It's very modern.It's smart, & pretty carefree, also with some autobiographical little poems & Australian mythology.I learned that some of these are autobiographical from a reading of his I attended recently.These poems are, in fact, even much cooler than I was able to tell at the reading.I wouldn't say he's one of the greatest living masters by any means, but this is fun writing.You should read this.You'll like it.It won't take long. ... Read more

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Contributions by Anne Marie Freybourg, Bernice Murphy, Les Murray, Ann Stephen. Text by Juliana Engberg. ... Read more

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This graded mathematics series leading to GCSE, developed alongside National Curriculum mathematics, aims to provide full coverage of current syllabuses at Foundation and Intermediate levels and to encourage different methods of calculation - mental, pencil and paper, and electronic. The books in the series are written for a whole ability range, and the answer booklets are published as separate booklets throughout the course, allowing the teacher flexibility of marking arrangements. ... Read more

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This new edition features an additional 26 Australian poets, and should be of interest to readers and students of Australian poetry. ... Read more

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1999 Lg. Paperback edition; light age related yellowing to pages; cover good; no marks or writing ... Read more

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Les Murray was born in 1938 and grew up on a dairy farm on the north coast of New South Wales. This book is a collection of his poetry. ... Read more

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Not only the migrating birds speak in "Translations from the Natural World". The imprisoned species of pigs use their slum language; ravens, cuttlefish, sunflowers and a shell-back tick are among those non-verbal members of our natural world which find distinctive voices in this new collection of poems by Les Murray. Few poets could achieve such variety of approach to express character and feelings and to give us their vision of the universe. Les Murray also includes the human animal in the poems which begin and conclude the collection. ... Read more

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Expands the Limits of Poetic Expression
The opening and closing groups of poems in this book are pretty straightforward and accessible.Those from the central section ("Presence:Translations From the Natural World") require more work by the reader.Once one realizes Murray has had to invent a different way of speaking for each animal or plant, the poems lose their opacity and become sheer magic.This from "The Snake's Heat Organ":"I gather at the drinking margin./Across the nothing there/an ardency/is lapping blank...a fox,it is pedalling off now,/a scintillating melon..../round a dark seed centre/and hungry as the sun."

Astonishing stuff from Down Under! ... Read more

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Features five key figures of Australian poetry - Kenneth Slessor, Roland Robinson, David Campbell, James McAuley and Francis Webb. Les Murray's introductory essays to the poets evoke the writers' circumstances, the trajectories of their very different work and suggests why their accomplishment have been generally eclipsed. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World Literature Today, published by University of Oklahoma on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 473 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Peter F. Alexander: Les Murray: a Life in Progress.(Brief Article)
Author: David Coad
Publication: World Literature Today (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: University of Oklahoma
Volume: 76Issue: 1Page: 129(1)

Article Type: Book Review, Brief Article

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