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Best Emerging Australian Poet

Mark Bahnisch
November 16, 2004
I think with Sophie on board we'll have to start a Troppo Literary Award! Stimulated by Sophie's post on Les Murray, I've been pondering the...
Literature

A new honour for Australia’s greatest poet…

Sophie Masson
November 16, 2004
For fellow admirers of Les Murray, here's some fantastic just-breaking news: the latest international honour to be awarded to our greatest poet. I had it...
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Particularly Strident

Mark Bahnisch
November 16, 2004
I can remember sitting in an undergrad Political Sociology lecture in 1991 and hearing the acerbic Lecturer authoritatively state "Women in politics are only suited...

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