The Ilex Tree

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The Ilex Tree
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Author Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann
Cover artistRoderick Shaw
Language English
GenrePoetry collection
Publisher ANU Press
Publication date
1965
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint
Pages71 pp.
Awards1965 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, winner

The Ilex Tree is a collection of poems by Australian poets Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann, published by ANU Press in 1965. [1]

Contents

The collection contains 43 poems (25 by Murray and 18 by Lehmann) from a variety of sources, with some being published here for the first time. [2]

The collection won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1965. [3]

Contents

Critical reception

Reviewing the collection in The Bulletin poet Vivian Smith noted that the subjects of Murray's poems "range from the sawmill towns to the aboriginal settlement, to love and the seasons" and he "draws from his childhood", while Lehmann's come "from family history". Smith concluded that Lehmann and Murray "belong to the small group of Australian poets under thirty whose development one will watch with the keenest interest." [4]

Dennis Douglas, writing in The Age, commented that while there "are a number of uncertain poems in the volume" the level "of achievement in the very good ones is high enough to suggest that as poets Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann have gained a stage of maturity of which they can justly be proud." [5]

See also

References

  1. "The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  2. "The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann". Austlit. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  3. "The Ilex Tree by Les Murray and Geoffrey Lehmann – Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  4. ""The Empty Room by Vivian Smith"". The Bulletin, 12 February 1966, p48. Retrieved 28 December 2024.
  5. ""Poetry by Dennis Douglas"". The Age, 10 September 1966, p23. ProQuest   2520549477 . Retrieved 28 December 2024.

The Ilex Tree from the Open Research Repository, Australian National University