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Waiting for the Past by Les Murray australian-humour Karen Hitchcock show what careWinner, 2015 Queensland Literary Awards Les Murray's new volume of poems his first in five years continues his use of molten language. From The Black Beaches to Radiant Pleats, Mulgoa, from High Speed Trap Space to The Electric, 1960, this is verse that renews and transforms our sense of the world. Shortlisted, 2015 TS Eliot Poetry Prize 'No poet has ever travelled like this, whether in reality or simply in mind Seeing the shape or hearing the sound