News at Eleven: [Les] Murray realised that his granddaughter

was turning 12, the age when he was sent packing and his mother was to die after a third miscarriage. "I sort of thought my way out of it."

There is one poem that he calls a throwback to the savage kind of poems he used to write. The 41st Year of 1968 is dedicated to the memory of the 173 people who died in the Victorian bushfires in February last year. It is, he says, the only angry poem in the book.

from Brisbane Times: Why Les Murray doesn't want a Nobel Prize

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