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Nicholas Murray is a freelance author based in Wales and London.  Born in Liverpool in 1952 he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Andrew Marvell, Bruce Chatwin and Matthew Arnold, a collection of poems, Plausible Fictions and two novels, A Short Book About Love and Remembering Carmen.  He is a regular contributor of poems, essays and reviews to newspapers and literary magazines, such as The Independent, London Magazine, Thumbscrew, Metre, Poetry Wales, New Welsh Review, Planet, Times Literary Supplement, and many others.  In 1996 he was the inaugural Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellow at the British Library Centre for the Book and he is a member of the Welsh Academy and of English PEN.  He has lectured at literary festivals and universities in Britain, Europe and the United States.  He is currently Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Queen Mary University London.

His collection The Narrators, out in January 2006, is also from The Rack Press.

About City Lights: (Melos Press, 2021)

    This wide-ranging and versatile 32-page pamphlet collection contains the longer sequences “The Song of Rhodri” (the voice of an imaginary medieval bard of the Welsh Marches) and “The World Tree” (poems about trees in myth and reality drawing on Norse legend) as well as poems of contemporary political resonance. From the Welsh countryside to Washington DC and all points in between these poems are both lyrical and engaged.

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collections -
"City Lights",
"The Yellow Wheelbarrow"
and
"Acapulco",
Melos Press;

"A Winter Quartet"
and
"The Narrators"
The Rack Press

 


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