‘This Country is My Mind’: Les Murray’s Poetics of Place

Abstract

Examines the “notion of place in Murray’s work, the complex nature of Bunyah as a ‘centre of the world’, and how a poetics of place is established and develops from the earliest collections” (p.16).

The full text of this essay is available to ALS subscribers

Please sign in to access this article and the rest of our archive.

Published 1 October 2001 in Volume 20 No. 2. Subjects: Place & identity, Les Murray.

Cite as: Leer, Martin. ‘‘This Country is My Mind’: Les Murray’s Poetics of Place.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 2001, doi: 10.20314/als.305a5526af.