Launch of New Poetry Pamphlet 15 October

 

 

You are warmly invited to the launch on 

Tuesday 15th October 

of my new Dare-Gale Press poetry pamphlet 

Littoral

at The Music Room, 49 Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3HZ  at 18.30. 

Two other poets will also be launching at this event: Paul O’Prey – Pilot Songs for a Phantom Island – and Jordi Doce –  Slow Burn  (translated from the Spanish by Paul O’Prey).

Admission is free and there will be refreshments so do come along 

and enjoy an evening of poetry and conviviality but please book your free spot through Eventbrite at:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1008787489537?aff=oddtdtcreator

Further details at www.daregale.com

My pamphlet is a sequence of poems drawing on my childhood memories of growing up on the banks of the River Mersey. The publisher says: “The ‘bleak and blasty’ sands of Crosby Beach provide the stage for a cast of mysterious and sometimes sinister figures:scavengers and shrimpers, raucous boys, a lonely priest and a disillusioned soldier, with the steely waters of the Mersey, passing ships, and the play of sunlight on distant hills an ever-restless backdrop. 

In these vivid dramas Nicholas Murray reveals to us the bitter sweetness of departure

and return to a place known with the intense intimacy of childhood, and weighs the ‘loss and gain/ that exile forces.”

If you are unable to attend you can pre-order now from Dare-Gale Press 

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I am also involved in two other events later that week at the Bloomsbury Festival. 

On 19th October at 11am I will be giving a talk (admission free) in the Library of Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL on “Bloomsbury and the Poets” looking at some of the poets who have been associated with this part of London. 

On the same day at 13.30 I will be taking part in the Sage Dance Company event, Lifelines, also at Conway Hall. This is a performance of dance and poetry by poets associated with Rack Press and including a realisation of my recent poems about the River Wye and its current travails.

 (tickets from box office using the Lifelines link).