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The People's Otherworld : Poems

The People's Otherworld : Poems (1983) is a collection of poetry by the Australian writer Les Murray.[1]

The People's Otherworld : Poems
AuthorLes Murray
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherAngus & Robertson
Publication date
1983
Media typePrint
Pages68 pp.
Preceded byFlowering Eucalypt in Autumn 
Followed bySelected Poems 

Contents edit

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"
  • "Fuel Stoppage on Gladesville Road Bridge in the Year 1980"
  • "View of Sydney, Australia, from Gladesville Road Bridge"
  • "The Flight from Manhattan"
  • "The C19-20"
  • "The Recession of the Joneses"
  • "Quintets for Robert Morley"
  • "The New Moreton Bay"
  • "Anthropomorphics"
  • "The Romantic Theme of Ruins"
  • "Bent Water in the Tasmanian Highlands"
  • "Equanimity"
  • "The Forest Hit by Modern Use"
  • "Shower"
  • "The Quality of Sprawl"
  • "Weights"
  • "Midsummer Ice"
  • "The Steel"
  • "Machine Portraits with Pendant Spaceman"
  • "The International Poetry Festivals Thing"
  • "Little Boy Impelling a Scooter"
  • "Self-Portrait from a Photograph"
  • "The Hypogeum"
  • "An Immortal"
  • "Second Essay on Interest: The Emu"
  • "A Retrospect of Humidity"
  • "Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn"
  • "The Chimes of Niegeschah"
  • "The Smell of Coal Smoke"
  • "The Mouthless Image of God in the Hunter-Colo Mountains"
  • "Time Travel"
  • "Exile Prolonged by Real Reasons"
  • "Three Interiors"
  • "Morse"
  • "Late Snow in Edinburgh"
  • "Art History: The Suburb of Surrealls"
  • "The Dialectic of Dreams"
  • "Satis Passio"
  • "For a Jacobite Lady"

Critical reception edit

Writing in The Canberra Times Peter Lugg commented: "This collection will counter the view held by some critics that Murray writes best about the bush. In these new poems. Murray moves deftly from bush to suburb, from the city (often Sydney) to a world of ideas...The poetry is elegant, with a sinewy philosphy strengthening it."[2]

Awards edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Austlit — The People's Otherworld by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  2. ^ ""Faith a force in Murray's poetry"". The Canberra Times, 4 February 1984, p14. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  3. ^ "ALS Gold Medal - Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Austlit — The People's Otherworld by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 11 November 2023.

See also edit

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