The Daily Poem: Animal Nativity

Tuesday 12 October 1993 23:02 BST

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For copyright reasons we are not able to provide the full text of the poem on this database. Following are the details of the publication in which it appears.

Les Murray is one of the 10 poets on the shortlist for the pounds 5,000 T S Eliot prize who are being featured in the Daily Poem this week. The winner will be announced next January, after an Oscars-style process in which the 1,850 members of the Poetry Book Society will each have a vote. Les Murray was born in Bunyah, New South Wales, in 1938, where he still lives and works. He became a full-time poet in 1971. This poem appears in Translations From the Natural World, published by Carcanet at pounds 6.95.

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