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World Service,01 Jan 1997,28 mins

Les Murray - an Australian poet

Meridian

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A documentary on the Australian poet Les Murray. He has won every Australian poetry award, and the quality of his poetry has placed him firmly in a superleague of contemporary poets, along with Caribbean poet Derek Walcott and Ireland's Seamus Heaney. He talks about his struggle with depression and how he has conquered it with poetry.

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