LEARNING HUMAN. New Selected Poems.

First UK edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original illustrated card covers. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh with just little rubbing to the extremities. The contents are clean throughout, and other than the author's, free from inscriptions or stamps.

Inscribed by the multi-award winning Australian poet in black ink on the half title "To Rhonda with / best wishes - / Les Murray". This collection, shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, brings together poems from across Les Murray's career, from The Ilex Tree (1965) to Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996), and also features twelve new poems, published here for the first time.