Pick up the phone and secure your tickets for Les Murray on Tuesday 26 October! Out of the blue we got a phonecall from Les Murray's agent in Britain, offering us the opportunity of a reading here in Dumfries. Since he’s coming all the way from Oz we didn’t hesitate! Les is a great performer of his work - he's huge and dusty like he's just stepped out of the outback, with a kind rumble of a voice and an exhilarating way with words. Absolutely not to be missed.
Les Murray will be reading at the Rutherford McCowan Building on the University of Glasgow campus at the Crichton site at 7pm. This is an exceptional opportunity to hear this great internationally renowned poet. Tickets are £10 and £8, available from us at dgArts on 01387 253383.
Les Murray is Australia’s leading poet and one of the greatest contemporary poets writing in English. His work has been published in ten languages. In 1999 he was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry on the recommendation of Ted Hughes.
Les Murray was born in 1938 in New South Wales. His Murray forebears had arrived on the Manning in the 1840s and Les has always been proud of both his Gaelic and pioneer Australian ancestry. Les has a soft spot for south west Scotland. Full of humour, energy and inventiveness, his poetry is a real treat.
