Subhuman Redneck Poems

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Subhuman Redneck Poems
Author Les Murray
Language English
GenrePoetry collection
PublisherDuffy and Snellgrove
Publication date
1996
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages104 pp.
Awards1997 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Poetry
ISBN 1875989080

Subhuman Redneck Poems is a collection of poems by Australian writer Les Murray, published by Duffy and Snellgrove in 1996. [1]

Contents

The collection contains 66 poems which were published in a variety of original publications, with some being published here for the first time. [2]

Contents

Critical reception

Writing in the Independent (UK) William Scammell noted: "If you like your politics in black and white, or Left and Right, Les Murray might be filed away, in his latest incarnation, as a reactionary mystic nationalist - an Australian Solzhenitsyn, perhaps - who babbles about God while sniping at the multicultural facts of modern life and smearing liberals with responsibility for half the horrors of the 20th century." [3]

Awards

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ "Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  2. ↑ "Austlit — Subhuman Redneck Poems by Les Murray". Austlit. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
  3. ↑ ""Going down but not under"". The Independent, 6 October 1996, p32. ProQuest   312534465 . Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  4. ↑ ""1993-2015 The T. S. Eliot Prize"". .. Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  5. ↑ ""'Drowner' awarded top prize "". The Age 18 October 1997, p14. ProQuest   2521622477 . Retrieved 16 October 2024.
  6. ↑ ""Return of the Redneck"". Sydney Morning Herald, 21 September 1996, p3s. ProQuest   2527356510 . Retrieved 16 October 2024.
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