Taller When Prone has at its heart Les Murray's celebrations of the
rural world in Australia and elsewhere, evoked with a deep understanding
of landscapes, and the seasons, working lives and languages that have
shaped them. Stories and songs, fragments of conversations, memories and
satire comprise this varied, habitable world. In Murray's vigorous and
sinuous language, 'song and story are pixels / in a mirrorball',
reflecting back to us endless possibilities.