Please, could anyone help me to find a poem by Les Murray?

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Hello, I live in Sweden, and I heard a little poem by Les Murray read on the Swedish radio, I heard it only once, and it went approximately like this: 

Night

I see the moon go up outside the door
To sit by myself is a habit I have
And I am going to pay for it
I already do
But in the meantime I sit and look at the moon

Does by chance anyone among the Australian Yahoo-community know this poem and would be kind enough to post it here in its correct version? 

I should be so very grateful for this because I loved the poem on first hearing it and have no other way of finding it (I checked the Internet thoroughly, of course).

Greetings from Eva in Sweden

synopsis · Accepted Answer

The poem is Evening Alone at Bunyah.

Section 5 begins:

Night, and I watch the moonrise through the door.
Sitting alone's a habit of mind with me ....

The full poem is too long to post here (around 200 lines), and there would be copyright issues.

But now that you know the name of the poem (it first appeared in The Weatherboard Cathedral in 1969), you should be able to retrieve it from any library.

......

You have excellent taste: Les is possibly the greatest living English language poet.

If Geoffrey Hill dies before Les (and Geoffrey is much older), there will be no 'possibly' about it.

Please, could anyone help me to find a poem by Les Murray?

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