Author Biography
The widely acclaimed Australian poet Les Murray lives and writes on a farm on the north coast of New South Wales, where he was born in 1938. His books include Dog Fox Field,Translations from the Natural World,Subhuman Redneck Poems,Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse,Learning Human: Selected Poems,Conscious and Verbal, and Poems the Size of Photographs. In 1998, Murray was awarded the Gold Medal for Poetry presented by Queen Elizabeth II.