num_pages: 432
description: This is the first biography of one of Australia's finest poets--a famed lyricist, polyglot, and polemicist. Alexander draws on extensive interviews with Murray to reveal how this complex man endured the harshest and most anti-intellectual of childhoods to develop into one of the most famouspoets writing in English today.
language: English
title: Les Murray: A Life in Progress
titlecomplete: Les Murray: A Life in Progress
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 8
publisher: Oxford University Press