Les Murray: Poetry Les Murray

Poetry collections

• 1965: The Ilex Tree (with Geoffrey Lehmann), Canberra, ANU Press[23]
• 1969: The Weatherboard Cathedral, Sydney, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1972: Poems Against Economics, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1974: Lunch and Counter Lunch, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1976: Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1977: Ethnic Radio, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1982: Equanimities
• 1982: The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961–1981, Angus & Robertson; Edinburgh, Canongate; New York, Persea Books, 1982 and (enlarged and revised edition) Angus & Robertson, 1988[23]
• 1983: Flowering Eucalypt in Autumn
• 1983: The People's Otherworld : Poems
• 1986: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press[23]
• 1987: The Daylight Moon, Angus & Robertson, 1987; Carcanet Press 1988 and Persea Books, 1988[23]
• 1994: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia[23]
• 1989: The Idyll Wheel
• 1990: Dog Fox Field Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Carcanet Press, 1991 and New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993[23]
• 1991: Collected Poems, Angus & Robertson, 1991; Carcanet Press, 1991; London, Minerva, 1992 and (released as The Rabbiter's Bounty, Collected Poems), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991[23]
• 1992: Translations from the Natural World, Paddington: Isabella Press, 1992; Carcanet Press, 1993 and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994[23]
• 1994: Collected Poems, Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia[23]
• 1996: Late Summer Fires
• 1996: Selected Poems, Carcanet Press
• 1996: Subhuman Redneck Poems[23]
• 1997: Killing the Black Dog, Black Inc Publishing
• 1999: New Selected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove[23]
• 1999: Conscious and Verbal, Duffy & Snellgrove[23]
• 2000: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow
• 2001: Learning Human: New Selected Poems (Poetry pleiade), Farrar, Straus and Giroux,[24] Carcanet[25]
• 2002: Poems the Size of Photographs, Duffy & Snellgrove and Carcanet Press
• 2002: New Collected Poems, Duffy & Snellgrove; Carcanet Press, 2003
• 2006: The Biplane Houses, Carcanet Press.[26] Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
• 2010: Taller When Prone, Black Inc Publishing
• 2011: Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 86 pp (autobiographical)[2]
• 2012: The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray, Black Inc Publishing[27]
• 2014: New Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• 2015: Waiting for the Past, Carcanet
• 2015: The Tin Wash Dish, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
• 2015: On Bunyah, Black Inc Publishing[28]
• 2018: Collected Poems, Black Inc Publishing
• 2022: Continuous Creation: Last Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Collections as editor

• 1986: Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry (editor), Melbourne, Collins Dove, 1986 (new edition, 1991)[23]
• 1991: The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse, Melbourne,Oxford University Press, 1986 and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991, 1999[23]
• 1994: Fivefathers, Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era, Carcanet Press[23]
• 2005: Hell and After, Four early English-language poets of Australia Carcanet[23]
• 2005: Best Australian Poems 2004, Melbourne, Black Inc.[23]
• 2012: The Quadrant Book of Poetry 2001–2010, Sydney, Quadrant Books[23]

Verse novels

• 1980: The Boys Who Stole the Funeral, Angus & Robertson, 1980, 1982 and Manchester, Carcanet, 1989[23]
• 1999: Fredy Neptune, Carcanet and Duffy & Snellgrove[23]

Prose collections

• 1978: The Peasant Mandarin, St. Lucia, UQP[23]
• 1984: Persistence in Folly: Selected Prose Writings, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1984: The Australian Year: The Chronicle of our Seasons and Celebrations, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1990: Blocks and Tackles, Angus & Robertson[23]
• 1992: The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose, Carcanet; Minerva, 1993[23]
• 1999: The Quality of Sprawl: Thoughts about Australia, Duffy & Snellgrove[23]
• 2000: A Working Forest, essays, Duffy & Snellgrove[23]
• 2002: The Full Dress, An Encounter with the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Australia[23]