The llex Tree
(with Geoffrey Lehmann)
Canberra: ANU Press, 1965.

The Weatherboard Cathedral Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969.

Poems Against Economics
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1972.

Lunch & Counter Lunch Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1974.

Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic
Sydney/London: Angus & Robertson, 1976.

Creeper Habit
Broadsheet/Open Door Press, 1976

Ethnic Radio
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1977.

The Boys Who Stole The Funeral Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1979, 1980; Manchester: Carcanet, 1989; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.

The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981 (enlarged and revised edition of 1976 publication) Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1982; Edinburgh: Canongate, 1982; New York: Persea Books, 1982; (enlarged and revised edition) Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1988.

Equanimities
(limited edition 350 copies)
Copenhagen: Razorback Press 1982.

The People's Otherworld Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1983.

Selected Poems Manchester: Carcanet, 1986.

The Daylight Moon Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1987; Manchester: Carcanet, 1988; New York: Perse a Books, 1988.

The Gravy in Images
International Liturgy Assembly, 1988.

The Idyll Wheel: Cycle of a Year at Bunyah, NSW, April 1986 - April 1987
(limited edition, 200 copies)
Canberra: Officina Brindabella, 1989.

Dog Fox Field Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990; Manchester: Carcanet, 1991; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1993.

Collected Poems
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1991;
Manchester: Carcanet, 1991;
London: Minerva, 1992;
(released as The Rabbiter's Bounty: Collected Poems)
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.

Translations From the Natural World Paddington: Isabella Press, 1992; Manchester: Carcanet, 1993; New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1994.

Collected Poems
Port Melbourne: William Heinemann Australia, 1994.

Subhuman Redneck Poems Manchester: Carcanet, 1996; Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1996.

Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse Manchester: Carcanet, 1998; Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1998.

Collected Poems Manchester: Carcanet, 1998.

Anthology
Nether Stowey (UK): Odyssey Poets, 1998

Conscious & Verbal Manchester: Carcanet, 1999; Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2000.

New Selected Poems Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1999.

Learning Human: Selected Poems USA: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.

Learning Human: New Selected Poems Manchester: Carcanet, 2001.

Poems the Size of Photographs Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002.

Collected Poems Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002.

The Full Dress: An Encounter with the National Gallery of Australia National Gallery of Australia, 2002.

New Collected Poems Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2002. Manchester: Carcanet, 2003. [see Table of Contents]

Learning Human: New Selected Poems Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 2003.

The Biplane Houses Melbourne: Black Inc., 2006 Manchester: Carcanet, 2006.

Selected Poems Melbourne: Black Inc., 2007.

Taller When Prone Melbourne: Black Inc., 2010 Manchester: Carcanet, 2010.

The Peasant Mandarin: Prose Pieces
St. Lucia: UQP , 1978.

Persistence in Folly: Selected Prose Writings
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1984.

The Australian Year: The Chronicle of our Seasons and Celebrations
(with photographs by Peter Solness and others)
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1985.

Blocks and Tackles: Articles and Essays 1982 to 1990
Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1990.

The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose
Manchester: Carcanet, 1992;
London: Minerva, 1993.

Killing the Black Dog (introduced and edited by Christine Alexander) Annandale: Federation Press, 1996.

A Working Forest: Selected Prose Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1997.

The Quality of Sprawl: Thoughts about Australia Sydney: Duffy & Snellgrove, 1999.

Introduction to The Shiralee (a novel by D'Arcy Niland) London: Penguin, 2001.

Nonchalant och skitig med dödliga fräknar [The Quality of Sprawl and A Working Forest] (Swedish translation by Jonas Ellerström) Stockholm: Bromergs, 2007.

Killing the Black Dog (revised and updated edition) Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009.

Ein ganz gewöhnlicher Regenbogen [An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow]
(German translations by Margitt Lehbert)
Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1996.

De slabonenpreek [Selected Poems] (introduced and translated by Maarten Elzinga) Amsterdam: Meulenhof, 1997.

Midtsommars is [Midsummer Ice]
(Norwegian translations by Grethe Fosse)
Oslo: Solum Forlag, 1997.

En helt almindelig Regubue: Digte [An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow: Poems]
(Danish translated by Martin Leer)
Copenhagen: Gyldendal, 1998.

Tillflykt till ödemarken: dikter [Escape to the Outback: Poems] (Swedish translations by Stewe Claeson, Jonas Ellerström & Lars Hakan Svensson) Stockholm: Wahlström & Widstrand, 2000.

Poemes subhumans
(Catalan translations by Víctor Batallé)
Barcelona: Columna, 2000.

Australia Australia
(Spanish translation and essay/notes by Gabriel Planella)
Barcelona: Editorial Lumen, 1997/2000.

Fredy Neptune (Dutch translation) Amsterdam: Meulenhof, 2001.

Fredy Neptune (German translation by Thomas Eichhorn) Ammann and Verlag, 2004.

Un Arcobaleno Perfettamente Normale [An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow] (Italian translations by Gaetano Prampolini) Biblioteca Adelphi, 2004.

The End of Symbol (Russian translation by Regina Derieva of a selection of poems; bilingual edition) New York and Stockholm: Ars-Interpres, 2004.

Freddy Nettuno (Italian translation by Massimiliano Morini; bilingual edition) Giano, 2004.

Setu… (The Bridges…) (Hindi translation of selected poems by Anuraag Sharma) New Delhi: Sarup and Sons, 2004.

Traumbabwe ["Dreambabwe", a Subhman Redneck poem] (German translation of shorter poems by Margitt Lehbert) Ammann, 2005.

Lettere dalla Beozia [Letters from Boeotia] (Italian translation of poetry and prose by Massimiliano Morini) Giano, 2005.

Dikter från den efterblivna landsbygden [Subhuman Redneck Poems] (Swedish translation by Stewe Claeson, Jonas Ellerström and Lars-Håkan Svensson ) Stockholm: Bromergs, 2006.

Gedichte, groß wie Photos [Poems the Size of Photographs] (German translation by Margitt Lehbert) Hörby: Rugerup, 2006

Heilige Kühe: Ausgewählte Gedichte [Holy Cow: Selected poems] (German translation by Margitt Lehbert) Hörby: Rugerup, 2006

Übersetzungen aus der Natur [Translations from the Natural World - selections] (German translation by Margitt Lehbert) Hörby: Rugerup, 2007

 

The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse
Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1986;
Oxford, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1991 (expanded edition).

Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry
Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1986;
Melbourne: Collins Dove, 1991 (2nd edition).

A. B. Paterson: Selected Poems Australia: Collins/Angus & Robertson, 1992, 1996.

Fivefathers: Five Australian Poets of the Pre-Academic Era Manchester: Carcanet Press, 1994.

Best Australian Poems 2004 Melbourne: Black Inc, 2004

Hell and After: Four early English-language poets of Australia Manchester: Carcanet Press, 2005.

Best Australian Poems 2005 Melbourne: Black Inc, 2005

Brodie's Notes on Les A. Murray's Selected Poems: The Vernacular Republic by Pamela Lloyd
Sydney: Pan Books, 1988.

A Vivid Steady State by Lawrence Bourke Kensington, NSW: NSW University Press and New Endeavour Press, 1992.

Counterbalancing Light: Essays on Les Murray ed. Carmel Gaffney
Armidale: Kardoorair Press, 1997.

A Dimension of the Angel: A Study of Les Murray's Poetry by Anurag Sharma
Jaipur: Bohra Prakashan, 1997.

Les Murray: A Life in Progress by Peter Alexander Oxford, Melbourne, USA: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Les Murray by Steven Matthews Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.

Poetry of Les Murray: Critical Essays
ed. Laurie Hergenham and Bruce Clunies Ross
Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2002.

Les Murray and Australian Poetry ed. Angela Smith London: Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, 2002.

Les Murray Country: Development and Significance of an Australian Poetic Landscape by Ulla Fürstenberg Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlag, 2004.