Note to Audience for Les Murray Reading/Symposium 21/22 April

The Magdalene English Department is very sorry to have to report that Les Murray is stranded in Australia.

His flight last week was cancelled because of volcanic ash, and he has been unable to confirm a new flight time which would allow him to be with us for the planned events in the coming week. Unfortunately, with much regret he therefore has to delay his visit to Cambridge. He sends his regrets to all those who were hoping to attend his reading on 21st April or his symposium on 22nd April.

We shall be in touch with all those who have requested tickets to hear his reading as soon as we know when he will be coming.

For further information about this and other literary events at Magdalene, please email litfest@magd.cam.ac.uk

MAGDALENE COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE

A READING BY

LES MURRAY

Open to All who are Interested
(free of charge)

Les Murray is on a brief return visit to Magdalene College, where he stayed first in 2005 in conjunction with the College "Festival of Literature". The central event of this stay will be a reading, to which members of the public as well as members of the University are warmly invited.

Les Murray is among the foremost living poets. Australian by birth, he has received international acclaim, but still lives in his native Bunyah on the north coast of New South Wales. In 1999 Murray was awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry at Buckingham Palace, an honour recommended by the late Poet Laureate, Ted Hughes. Murray's Subhuman Redneck Poems (1966) was awarded the T.S.Eliot Prize. Apart from his Collected Poems, he has also published The Biplane Houses (2006), and a collection of essays and prose writings in The Paperbark Tree (1992). His outstandingly original verse novel Fredy Neptune appeared in 1998, and in 2004 won the Mondello Prize as well as a major award at the Leipzig Book Fair.

'It is wonderfully disciplined writing, offering what poetry and nothing else can offer, an art that arrests one's otherwise ever frustrated sense of the richness of the life that lives only for the moment.' C. K. Stead, London Review of Books

'One of the finest poets writing in English today, one of the super league which includes Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and Joseph Brodsky.' Blake Morrison, Independent on Sunday

WEDNESDAY 21st APRIL 2010 at 5.15pm

in The Sir Humphrey Cripps Theatre, Cripps Court, Magdalene College
(entry on Chesterton Road)

This is a ticketed event. Tickets, which are free of charge, may be obtained in advance by contacting litfest@magd.cam.ac.uk or by telephone 01223 332152. Please leave a message with your postal address and the number of tickets you require.