"Les Murray Country": development and significance of an Australian poetic landscape
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Autor: Fürstenberg, Ulla
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Contents 0. INTRODUCTION ......................................................................................11 0.1. General................................................................................................ 11 0.2. Structure............................................................................................ 11 0.3. Selection of Texts............................................................................. 13 1. THE POET AND HIS COUNTRY..........................................................15 1.1. Biographical Overview.................................................................... 15 1.1.1. Childhood ....................................................................................... 15 1.1.2. The Death of the Mother and Taree High School .......................... 16 1.1.3. Sydney University, the Loss ofBunyah and Wandering Years ...... 18 1.1.4. Returning to Bunyah .......................................................................21 1.2. The Geographical Basis of Les Murray Country ...................... 24 1.2.1. Les Murray s Spirit Countiy ......................................................... 24 1.2.2. Les Murray Country ...................................................................... 26 1.3. Biographical Facts as a Structuring Principle.......................... 27 2. POETRY OF URBAN EXILE : FROM THE ILEX TREE (1965) TO THE PEOPLE S OTHERWORLD (1983).........................................28 2.1. The Biographical Background and Its Implications.................. 28 2.2. The Narrative of Possession in Les Murray s Early Poetry..... 29 2.2.1. Impermanence and Resilience: The Family Home ......................... 29 2.2.2. Legal Systems: Thinking About Aboriginal Land Rights... and Laconics ............................................................................... 30 2.2.3. Loss: Cowyard Gates
.................................................................. 33 2.2.4. The Poet as a Visitor to Bunyah ..................................................... 34 2.2.4.1. Trips to and from Bunyah...................................................................35 2.2.4.2. Conflicts: The Unease of the Visitor...................................................36 2.3. The Emergence of Les Murray Country ...................................... 39 2.3.1. The Humanised Landscape: Blurred Boundaries .......................... 39 2.3.1.1. Ancestors and Legends.......................................................................39 2.3.1.2. Houses.................................................................................................43 2.3.1.3. The Country and the Poet s Mind........................................................44 2.3.1.4. Human Attributes of Non-human Nature............................................45 2.3.2. The Mysterious Landscape .............................................................51 2.3.2.1. The Forest............................................................................................51 2.3.2.2. The Unfamiliar Country......................................................................57 2.3.2.3. Connecting to the Mysterious Country: Rituals..................................60 7
2.4. Celebrating Les Murray Country ................................................68 2.4.1. Celebrating the Country as a Unifying Force: Toward the Imminent Days ..............................................................................69. 2.4.1.1. The Country and the Poet s Mind........................................................69 2.4.1.2. Humour in the Bardic Voice...............................................................72 2.4.1.3. The Country of Toward the Imminent Days ....................................74 2.4.2. TheReturnees ..............................................................................76 2.4.2.1. The Speaking Voice in The Returnees .............................................76 2.4.2.2. The Country of The Returnees .........................................................77 2.4.2.3. The Effect of the Country on the Returnees ....................................78 2.4.2.4. Boeotian Art........................................................................................80 2.4.3. Celebrating Visits Home : The Buladelah-Taree Holiday Song Cycle ....................................................................................81 2.4.3.1. The Speaking Voice in the Song Cycle ...........................................81 2.4.3.2. The Country of the Song Cycle and the people ..............................82 2.4.3.3. Convergence ? Aboriginal Influences on Perceptions of the Country in the Song Cycle ............................................................................87 2.5. Towards a Definition of Les Murray Country ..........................89 3. POETRY OF THE BUNYAH YEARS: FROM THE DAYLIGHT MOON (1987) TO CONSCIOUS AND VERBAL (1999) .........................92 3.1. The Biographical Background and Its Implications..................92 3.2. The Narrative of Return in the Poetry of the Bunyah Years 93 3.3. Speaking from Les Murray Country : The Idyll
Wheel .........96 3.3.1. Introducing a Poetic Project: The Preface to The Idyll Wheel .....96 3.3.1.1. The Past in the Present........................................................................96 3.3.1.2. The General and the Particular............................................................97 3.3.2. The Thirteen Months of The Idyll Wheel .....................................99 3.3.2.1. Leaf Spring and When Bounty is Down to Persimmons and Lemons 99 3.3.2.2. The Kitchens and Midwinter Haircut ........................................ 101 3.3.2.3. Forty Acre Ethno ........................................................................... 103 3.3.2.4. Mercurial and Fresh Water and Salt .......................................... 104 3.3.2.5. The Misery Cord ........................................................................... 105 3.3.2.6. Heat and Drought: Summer Poems.................................................. 106 33.2.1. Autumn Again: March..................................................................... 110 3.3.3. The Idyll Wheel and Les Murray Country ...............................113 3.3.3.1. Continuity and Change..................................................................... 113 3.3.3.2. The Country of The Idyll Wheel ................................................... 115 3.3.3.3. The Country and the Poet s Mind..................................................... 116 3.4. Rediscovering the World of Home .............................................117 3.4.1. Travelling through a Changing Landscape ..................................118 3.4.2. Places of Memory in the Landscape .............................................122 8
3.4.3. Belonging to Les Murray Country’ ..............................................126 3.4.3.1. Becoming Part of Les Murray Country ......................................... 126 3.4.3.2. Returning and Belonging.................................................................131 3.4.3.3. Leisurely Contemplating the Land...................................................133 3.4.4. Historical Landscape Change ......................................................135 3.5. The Country Speaking: Presence: Translations from the Natural World ..............................................................................139 3.5.1. The Human and Animal Worlds ...................................................140 3.5.2. Empathy and Escapism .................................................................144 3.5.3. The Poems in Presence: Translations from the Natural World . .146 3.5.3.1. Otherness: Life Outside Language................................................... 146 3.5.3.2. Otherness and Familiarity: the Presence Sequence and Les Murray Country .......................................................................154 3.6. Beyond Translations from the Natural World (1992)...........158 3.6.1. Relief from Rage: Country Poems in Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996) ...........................................................................................158 3.6.1.1. The Aboriginal Element in Subhuman Redneck Poems..................158 3.6.1.2. Humans and the Country..................................................................161 3.6.2. Conscious and Verbal (1999) .......................................................163 3.6.2.1. The Poet and the Country.................................................................164 3.6.2.2; Knowing the Country, Changing the Country................................. 166 3.6.2.3. The Aboriginal Element: One Kneeling, One Looking Down 168 3.6.3. From Poems the Size of
Photographs (to be published in 2001) 169 3.6.3.1. The Aboriginal Element: An Australian Legend ..........................170 3.6.3.2. The Poet and the Country.................................................................171 3.7. Conclusion: The Development of Les Murray Country ........173 4. LES MURRAY COUNTRY AND CONCEPTIONS OF AUSTRALIA: AN ATTEMPT AT CONTEXTUALISATION .........177 4.1. Contemporary Attitudes...............................................................177 4.1.1. The Unfashionable Bush? ...........................................................177 4.1.2. The Fashionable Bush ................................................................178 4.2. Les Murray Country and the Australian Legend .................180 4.2.1. The Last of the Jindiworobaks : The Australian Legend and the Aboriginal Element ................................................................ 181 4.2.1.1. The Influence of the Jindiworobak Movement on Conceptions of Australia..................................................................................... 182 4.2.1.2. The Jindiworobak Creed, the Australian Legend and Les Murray Country ...................................................................... 183 4.3. Ecological Awareness in Les Murray Country ......................186 4.4. Conclusion: Les Murray Country and Conceptions of Australia...........................................................................................187 9
5. SUMMARY: THE DEVELOPMENT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF LES MURRAY COUNTRY .................................................................189 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY....................................................................................196 Les Murray - Poetry:.............................................................................196 Les Murray - Essays:.............................................................................196 Secondary Material:.............................................................................197 APPENDIX A: TRANSCRIPTS............................................................................................202 Interview 14 October 1999, Bunyah, NSW.........................................202 Interview 6 September 2000, Bunyah, NSW........................................208 From The Daylight Moon (a film by Don Featherstone, 1990)........209 APPENDIX B: MAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS...................................................................211 APPENDIX C: POEMS FROM POEMS THE SIZE OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND ACCOMPANYING LETTER...........................................................223 10
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