{"product_id":"2026100009406-secondhand-the-weatherboard-cathedral","title":"The Weatherboard Cathedral","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: DJ: unclipped; noticeable tear on front panel, in mylar. Markings: name penned on title page. Otherwise internally sound. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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.\n\nMurray'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?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203104448731,"sku":"2026100009406-SECONDHAND","price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/155771e1-4f69-490f-9cd3-04c32674747b.png?v=1788143791","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009406-secondhand-the-weatherboard-cathedral","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}