New Poetry Pamphlet Launched

 

 My new poetry collection from Dare Gale Press can be ordered here (click on those three white parallel bars in the top left hand corner of this site’s home page).

Let me know [nicholasmurray@btinternet.com] if you would like a personally signed copy.

My pamphlet is a sequence of poems drawing on my childhood memories of growing up on the banks of the River Mersey. 

Here’s what 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.”