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Importing biographical tidbits into discussion of a poet’s work is rarely wise or even very productive. Nonetheless, there are instances when what happens to a poet’s body casts a long shadow, even by his own admission, over subsequent writing. We could mention Geoffrey Hill’s altered relation to depression and language vis-à-vis pharmaceuticals. Or any number of poets forced to confront elegy when they least wished to.
. The new book sprawls across forms and subgenres: found conversation, compact riddle, elegy, murky allegory, common portraits, inquiries in faith and Murray’s famous ear for bending Australian vernacular to the aims of art.It’s never easy, with Les Murray, to settle on a single exemplary image or passage. Australia’s most honoured and internationally renowned poet continues, through sheer invention, to shock and pleasure when simply looking at physical detail. The Cowladder Stanzas begins, “Not from a weather direction/black cockatoos come crying over/ unflapping as Blériot monoplanes/to crash in pine tops for the cones.”
At their best, Murray’s poems set up these intricate dialogues between the surface action described and the sonic patterns that information is conveyed on. The delaying of the picture’s full resolution until the last string of monosyllables springs the tree tops into juddery motion after absorbing that incoming ruckus. The transferring of attentional focus from the cockatoos on to the pine cones stands as brilliant mimicry, or discovery, of what’s occurring relationally in real time.
Elsewhere, offered a glimpse down the throat of a stunned kingfisher in High-speed Bird which normally would signal a perfect intersection for Murray’s abilities and passions (his ability to speak into and from the animal world as well as his fathering an autistic son) drifts through five stanzas of banalities before hitting a nerve with “He finds a voice/in the flyscreen, rattling it,/ hanging cruciform on it.”
Les Murray’s enthusiasms, convictions, arguments, song forms and devotions are all his own and continue to take him places in verse we’re glad to follow. Even his penchant for sweeping condemnations and encoded angers can remind us we’re in the presence of an expansive imagination. What Murray can do with the poetic line seems limitless.
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