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  1. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · David McCooey

    Australian poetry classics: Les Murray’s The Broad Bean Sermon is inexhaustible food for contemplation (opens the original)

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    In his lifetime, Les Murray (1938–2019) was often associated with contradiction and tension. He was seen as both Australia’s national poet and a reactionary who was out of step with modern Australian life. He was internationally fêted, often seen as a potential Nobel laureate, but he had a complicated local reputation. He was a university-educated “subhuman redneck”, to evoke the title of his 1996 collection Subhuman Redneck Poems. Unlike some poets, Murray was not celebrated for one or two “big

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