Hell and After Four Early English Language Poets of Australia

"Les Murray's anthology of four early Australian poets reaches back in time from Fivefathers, his collection of five Australian poets of the earlier twentieth century. Hell and After contains substantial selections of the work of McNamara (1811-1880), and three poets from the second half of the nineteenth century. The social reformer Mary Gilmore (1865-1962) grew up in the bush and her poems are vivid evocations of colonial life. John Shaw Neilson (1872-1942), a poet of great lyricism and humour, spent most of his life in poverty as a manual labourer, and Lesbia Harford (1891-1927), was a radical activist who worked as a factory machinist and servant."--BOOK JACKET.

Les Murray is the author of Subhuman Redneck Poems, which received the T.S. Eliot Prize for the best collection of poetry of 1996. He was awarded The Queen''s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1999.