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Les Murray

Poetry

Spring 2002

Pop Music

By Les Murray

Empty as a country town street after five. Two or three crisp high-heel walkers, and a pair of little girls in a station wagon, one lounging a pop bottle boinc […]

Poetry

Spring 2002

The Annals of Sheer

By Les Murray

Like a crack across a windscreen this Alpine sheep track winds around buttress cliffs of sheer no guard rail anywhere like cobweb round a coat it threads a bare rock […]