
A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 Taller When Prone is Les Murray's first volume of new poems since The Biplane Houses , published five years ago. These poems combine a mastery of form with a matchless ear for the Australian vernacular. Many evoke rural life here and abroad--its...


"Les Murray has earned his reputation not only as one of Australia's finest writers but as one of the most engaging poets writing in English today." --Kate Kellaway, The Observer (London)
