The Daylight Moon

The Daylight Moon is a collection of poems by Australian poet Les Murray, published by Angus and Robertson in 1987.

The collection contains 54 poems reprinted from a number of sources and with some being published here for the first time.

It was the winner of the 1988 Adelaide Festival John Bray Poetry Award.

Contents

Critical reception

Reviewing the collection for The Age newspaper Vincent Buckley noted that it had "something of a reborn quality, and something of a revenant one." He attributed this to the poet's decision to return to live in the countryside of his childhood, where the familiar must be seen with "new eyes". Buckley went on to note that Murray has risen to "the challenge with a verve that shows him still the most inventive poet in the country."

In The Guardian UK newspaper, Martin Dodsworth wrote "Murray's style is to be expansively various, flooding his world with light, not singling out this or that for intense attention."

Publication history

After the collection's initial publication in Australia in 1987 it was reprinted as follows:

• 1988, Carcanet, UK
• 1988, Persea Books, USA

See also

• 1987 in Australian literature

References