Continuous Creation

"The poems in this posthumous collection are, as so often in his work, intelligent, high-spirited, coolly or crudely argued, full of small delights . . . I like best the poems smothered in the dust of the outback, poems taking that barren realm for granted as a Wordsworth would, making a home there of the private torments to which the past belongs . . . Few contemporary poets are as embedded in landscape . . . Murray was that rare thing, a poet who whatever his debts seemed an original. In the end he had nothing left to prove."—William Logan, The New York Times Book Review

"[A] sense of the end infuses the book, leavened by his characteristically sharp wit, pitch-perfect attention to the sound of language, and love for the Australian countryside and its hard-won beauties . . . a fine farewell to a poet who stuck true to his singular vision."—Rishi Dastidar, The Guardian

"This book’s first poem, 'The Inland Food Bowl,' traces the course of the Murray River, Australia’s longest. And like that river with which he shares a surname, his work will endure, an unmissable landmark."—Michael Autrey, Booklist