The Weatherboard Cathedral
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; noticeable tear on front panel, in mylar. Markings: name penned on title page. Otherwise internally sound.
From the sun-bleached paddocks and eucalyptus-scented hills of rural New South Wales, Les A. Murray's debut collection, The Weatherboard Cathedral, announces the arrival of one of Australia's most powerful and distinctive poetic voices. Published in 1969 by Angus and Robertson, this landmark collection presents a vivid, deeply rooted portrait of the Australian bush, its people, and the spiritual resonance Murray discovers in the most unassuming corners of the landscape — from a weatherboard farmhouse to the vast, indifferent sky above it. Murray's verse is dense, allusive, and charged with a reverence for the vernacular, transforming the rhythms of rural Australian speech into a sacred literary language all its own. Influenced by his upbringing in Bunyah, New South Wales, he chronicles the textures of a life lived close to the earth with an intimacy that is both autobiographical and mythic in scope. The Weatherboard Cathedral establishes the thematic architecture that would define Murray's entire career — the tension between the bush and the city, the sacred and the secular, the local and the universal — and for readers discovering his work for the first time, it poses an irresistible question: how does a man turn a weatherboard church into a cathedral of words?
Author: Les A. Murray
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Angus and Robertson
Genre: Poetry
Edition: 1st ed.,
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: DJ: unclipped; noticeable tear on front panel, in mylar. Markings: name penned on title page. Otherwise internally sound.
From the sun-bleached paddocks and eucalyptus-scented hills of rural New South Wales, Les A. Murray's debut collection, The Weatherboard Cathedral, announces the arrival of one of Australia's most powerful and distinctive poetic voices. Published in 1969 by Angus and Robertson, this landmark collection presents a vivid, deeply rooted portrait of the Australian bush, its people, and the spiritual resonance Murray discovers in the most unassuming corners of the landscape — from a weatherboard farmhouse to the vast, indifferent sky above it. Murray's verse is dense, allusive, and charged with a reverence for the vernacular, transforming the rhythms of rural Australian speech into a sacred literary language all its own. Influenced by his upbringing in Bunyah, New South Wales, he chronicles the textures of a life lived close to the earth with an intimacy that is both autobiographical and mythic in scope. The Weatherboard Cathedral establishes the thematic architecture that would define Murray's entire career — the tension between the bush and the city, the sacred and the secular, the local and the universal — and for readers discovering his work for the first time, it poses an irresistible question: how does a man turn a weatherboard church into a cathedral of words?