Welcome to Les Murray's Poetry
Leslie Allan Murray was born in 1938 in Nabiac, a village on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, and spent his childhood and youth on his father's dairy farm nearby. The area is sparsely populated, hilly, and forested, and the beauty of this rural landscape forms a backdrop to many of Murray's best poems, such as 'Spring Hail':
His parents were poor and their weatherboard house almost bare of comforts; Murray remarked that it was not until he went to the university that he first... about Les Murray
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