On Bunyah

* Australia's greatest poet, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize, celebrates his return to his rural roots. * Poems and photographs explore his beloved farm and community in Bunyah, New South Wales. * Les, par excellence the poet of the natural world and the human spirit, is also one of the great religious poets of our time. * Carcanet's 21st Murray book: his collections, anthologies and essays are among our best sellers.

Underlying Les Murray’s best-loved nature poems is his farm in Bunyah, where he lives close to the earth and its creatures. On Bunyah celebrates this beloved landscape in new poems and photographs of vivid clarity and poignancy.'Bunyah has been my refuge and home place all my life. This book concentrates on the smallest habitats of community, the scattered village and the lone house, where space makes the isolated dwelling into an illusory distant city ruled by its family and their laws.'
This updated edition of On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs. From blood and fenceposts to broad beans and milk lorries, Les Murray evokes the life and landscape of his part of the country.