WHO: Australian poet Les Murray
WHAT: Reading from his work
WHEN: Wednesday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m.
WHERE: Ho Lecture Room (105 Lawrence Hall), Colgate University
Hamilton, NY — Australian poet Les Murray will give a reading from his work as part of Colgate University’s Spring Poetry Series on Wednesday, March 28. According to Albert Mobilio of The New York Times Book Review, Murray is a ‘national bard’ who ‘energetically engages the full breadth of the Australian experience ‘ its colonial origins, aboriginal inhabitants, rural landscapes and outback
bravado . . .’ Murray’s reading, at 4:30 p.m. in the Ho Lecture Room, Lawrence Hall, is free and open to the public.
Murray is the author of 23 titles published in Australia and several in the United States and England, including his most recent, Learning Human: Selected Poems (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2001), as well as the highly acclaimed Subhuman Redneck Poems (1997). Murray has won numerous National Book Council Awards in Australia, in addition to the Australian National Poetry Award, The Cook Bicentennial Poetry Prize (1970), the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal (1987), the New South Wales Premiers Prize, and the Bicentennial Poetry Prize (1988). He has also been honored with the Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to literature, and has received four PBS Recommendations and two PBS Choices. In 1996 he was given the T.S. Eliot Prize in the United Kingdom for Subhuman Redneck Poems, and in November 1998 he was awarded the prestigious Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
Founded in 1819, Colgate University is a nationally ranked, highly selective, residential, liberal arts college. Situated on a rolling 515-acre campus in central New York State, Colgate University attracts motivated students with diverse backgrounds, interests, and talents.