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Poet Les Murray dies at 80 Poet Les Murray dies at 80

Poet Les Murray dies at 80

Tuesday 30 April 2019

Media and Communications Office
 
Les Murray, Australia’s unofficial poet laureate, passed away yesterday at the age of 80. A Catholic convert, his poems deal with religion, death, family, and art through the lens of rural Australia. Here is a piece we ran on him in 2013 in Kairos, Volume 24, Issue 6.  

 

 

 
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