April 29, 2019 · 9:57 am
↓ Jump to Comments

Vale Les Murray

Les-Murray-006.jpg

That day that comes  has come for Australia’s leading poet and cultural icon Les Murray who died at the age of 80, today 29.4.19, with 30 volumes of poetry to his credit.

19 Comments

Filed under life, poetry

Tagged as , ,

19 responses to “Vale Les Murray”

  1. calmkate
    April 29, 2019 at 10:25 am

    must sadly admit this is the first I’ve heard of him … but loving what I’m reading so thanks heaps for the intro!

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  2. GP Cox
    April 29, 2019 at 10:34 am

    I am sorry for the world’s loss.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  5. Leyda Bien
    April 29, 2019 at 11:22 pm

    WOW, prolific poet–I salute him from here in the USA.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply
  6. David Redpath
    April 30, 2019 at 1:15 am

    We will not see his likes again . . .
    as Les Murray takes his well deserved seat next to Banjo Patterson, to share a yarn with Chips Rafferty, whilst cookin’ some damper
    on the camp fire. Listenin’ intently to Slim Dusty, strummin’ a tune, whilst waitin’ for the billy to boil.

    Liked by 1 person

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Google photo

You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.