Leslie Allan Murray (b. 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet and critic. He was born in Nabiac , New South Wales.
He went in 1957 to the University of Sydney, to read modern languages. There he became a Roman Catholic convert. He became a professional translator, without completing a degree. He became a full-time writer in 1969, having spent some time travelling and completing his degree course.
He also edited the magazine Poetry Australia, and served as literary editor of Quadrant.
Works
- The Ilex Tree (1965) (with Geoffrey Lehmann ) poems
- The Weatherboard Cathedral (1969) poems
- Poems Against Economics (1972)
- Lunch and Counter Lunch (1974)
- The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems, (1976)
- Ethnic Radio (1978) poems
- The Peasant Mandarin (1978) prose
- The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1980) verse novel
- Equanimities (1982) poems
- The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981 (1982),
- The People's Otherworld (1983) poems
- Persistence in Folly (1984) prose
- The Daylight Moon (1987), poems
- The Idyll Wheel (1989) poems
- Dog Fox Field (1990) poems
- Blocks and Tackles (1990) prose
- The Rabbiter's Bounty (1991)
- Translations from the Natural World (1992) poems
- Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996)
- A Working Forest (1997) prose
- Fredy Neptune (1998) poetry
- Conscious & Verbal (2000) poetry
- Poems the Size of Photographs (2002) poetry
