His parents were poor and their weatherboard house almost bare of comforts; Murray remarked that it was not until he went to the university that he first met the middle class. His identification was with the underprivileged, especially the rural poor, and it was this that gave him his strong sense of unity with Aborigines and with 'common folk'. famouspoetsandpoems.com:80
One can hear the deprecating giggle, the understatement, in the phrase once Murray adopted it as a title. www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2002.php?t=6#a6
Les Murray is Australia's leading contemporary poet and a leading figure in contemporary literature. Site contains extracts from Fredy Neptune, Subhuman Redneck Poems and other key writings www.lesmurray.org/
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Les Murray. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Murray_(poet)
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Les Murray. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Murray_%28poet%29
