Tuesday, November 23, 2010

News at Eleven: [Les Murray's] poetry, and more so

his politics, have married a reverence for bush wisdom with an instinctive distrust of metropolitan life in general, and what he sees as the received opinions of liberal elites about such issues as modernism and secularism in particular. It was long before the most recent wave of popular disgust against bankers that Murray began a poem: "Some of us primary producers, us farmers and authors/are going round to watch them evict a banker".

from The Guardian: A life in writing: Les Murray

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