Continuous Creation: Last Poems by Les Murray Jay G Ying I was reminded throughout of

I was reminded throughout of Ken Smith’s lonely sequences – the fragmentation and moments of intense lyricism

alerted / by fuchsia

and explains why it retains its vertiginous originality and continues to speak to us across the generations

The poems are astir with voices and bodies usually kept ‘between the lines’ of poetry: a weeping poltergeist disrupting the decorum of a lyric

Continuous Creation: Last Poems by Les Murray Jay G Ying I was reminded throughout ofAustralia's greatest and best loved poet, Les Murray (1938 2019) was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at the nomination of Ted Hughes (1999) and won the T. S. Eliot Award among many other distinctions. He is a poet of deep environmental commitment: born and raised on the land, he died at his farm in Bunyah in New South Wales. Continuous Creation is his last major offering, compiled in his final years at Bunyah and found there after his death.