Continuous Creation: Last Poems by Les Murray Jay G Ying of imagination – voiced in

of imagination – voiced in the walkers’ invitation in USABLE TRUTH’s last

There as a child the poet discovered an incised potsherd: 'Was that the day when antiquity / - The place where all is over and done - / Took ineluctable hold of me

alerted / by fuchsia

violence and grief

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Continuous Creation: Last Poems by Les Murray Jay G Ying of imagination – voiced inAustralia's greatest and best loved poet, Les Murray (1938 2019) was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at the nomination of Ted Hughes (1999) and won the T. S. Eliot Award among many other distinctions. He is a poet of deep environmental commitment: born and raised on the land, he died at his farm in Bunyah in New South Wales. Continuous Creation is his last major offering, compiled in his final years at Bunyah and found there after his death.