Leslie Allan Murray (b. 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet and critic. He was born in Nabiac , New South Wales.

He went in 1957 to the University of Sydney, to read modern languages. There he became a Roman Catholic convert. He became a professional translator, without completing a degree. He became a full-time writer in 1969, having spent some time travelling and completing his degree course.

He also edited the magazine Poetry Australia, and served as literary editor of Quadrant.

Works

• The Ilex Tree (1965) (with Geoffrey Lehmann ) poems
• The Weatherboard Cathedral (1969) poems
• Poems Against Economics (1972)
• Lunch and Counter Lunch (1974)
• The Vernacular Republic Selected Poems, (1976)
• Ethnic Radio (1978) poems
• The Peasant Mandarin (1978) prose
• The Boys Who Stole the Funeral (1980) verse novel
• Equanimities (1982) poems
• The Vernacular Republic: Poems 1961-1981 (1982),
• The People's Otherworld (1983) poems
• Persistence in Folly (1984) prose
• The Daylight Moon (1987), poems
• The Idyll Wheel (1989) poems
• Dog Fox Field (1990) poems
• Blocks and Tackles (1990) prose
• The Rabbiter's Bounty (1991)
• Translations from the Natural World (1992) poems
• Subhuman Redneck Poems (1996)
• A Working Forest (1997) prose
• Fredy Neptune (1998) poetry
• Conscious & Verbal (2000) poetry
• Poems the Size of Photographs (2002) poetry