Vale Les Murray

The poet hailed for creating 'a vernacular republic for Australia' passed away in Taree aged 80.
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Poet Les Murray has died aged 80. Image supplied.

The man they called ‘the Bard of Bunyah’ has passed away in a nursing home in Taree after a long illness. Leslie Allan Murray – though rarely more than Les – wrote 30 books of poetry and two verse novels over his long career in letters.

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