The leading Australian poet, Les Murray, will be reading and discussing his work at the University of Glasgow, TODAY, Tuesday 11 June.

Les Murray, a poet of international stature, was the 1996 winner of the prestigious T.S.Eliot Prize. He has been described in the Independent as "the best poet Australia has ever had."

Dr Alan Riach of the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow describes him as "a poet of the Outback, the sun-drenched spaces of Australia's sprawling continental hinterland: sawmill towns, weatherboard cathedrals, backroads, bush and bean forests." Les Murray's poetry scorns social pretension and racism and dismisses trendy politics and spurious authority.

His reading which is free and open to all without ticket will be held in lecture room G6 in the West Quadrangle of the University of Glasgow at 7.30 p.m. on Tuesday 11 June.

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First published: 11 June 2002