New Selected Poems by Les Murray

Author:Les Murray [Les Murray]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847776068
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2012-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Keenly as I read detective fiction

I’ve never cared who done it.

I read it for the ambiences:

David Small reasoning rabbinically,

Jim Chee playing tapes in his tribal

patrol car to learn the Blessing Way,

or the tweed antiquaries of London,

fog from the midriff down,

discoursing with lanthorn and laudanum.

I read it, then, for the stretches

of presence. And to watch analysis

and see how far author and sleuth

can transcend that, submitting

to the denied whole mind, and admit it,

since the culprit’s always the same:

the poetry. Someone’s poem did it.

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