| Author | Les Murray |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | Poetry collection |
| Publisher | Isabella Press |
Publication date | 1992 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 67 pp. |
| Awards | 1993 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards winner; and 1993 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards winner |
Translations from the Natural World is a collection of poems by Australian poet Les Murray, published by Isabella Press in 1982. [1]
The collection contains 48 poems from a variety of sources. [2]
Writing in The Age newspaper reviewer Kevin Hart noted that this poet's "idiom is utterly distinctive; it enables him to write poems, often quite long ones, that are sustained only by that idiom. Yet his very fluency encourages him to confuse poetic material with finished poems." He then went on to comment that "it is refreshing to find him, in a series of verbal games, trying to let the natural world speak." [3]
In The Guardian Michael Husle called this collection "an enjoyable read", noting that the "zest that went into the writing is plain in his technical versatility." [4]