Nicholas Murray (biographer)

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Nicholas Murray is a British literary biographer, poet and journalist.

Career

Nicholas Murray is a freelance author based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool in 1952, he was educated at St Mary’s College, Crosby, and graduated from Liverpool University in 1973 in English Language and Literature.

He is the author of several

New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997 and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award
in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.

He is a regular contributor of poems, essays and reviews to a wide range of newspapers and literary magazines. In 1996 he was the inaugural Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellow at the

City Literary Institute
in London.

So Spirited a Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool was published by

British poets of the First World War
, The Red Sweet Wine of Youth (Little, Brown) appeared in February 2011 and his verse broadside against the British coalition government, Get Real! also appeared in February 2011. In April 2012 Acapulco: New and Selected Poems appeared from Melos Press. His latest book is Of Earth, Water, Air and Fire: animal poems (Melos, 2013)

Murray also runs a small poetry imprint, Rack Press, and writes the Bibliophilicblogger literary blog.

In August 2015, Murray was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing

Labour Party leadership election.[1][2]

Works

Literary Biographies

  • After Arnold: Culture and Accessibility (British Library, 1997)
  • World Enough and Time: The Life of Andrew Marvell (Little, Brown, 1999)
  • The Red Sweet Wine of Youth: British Poets of the First World War (Little, Brown, 2011)

Poetry Collections

  • Plausible Fictions (Rack Press, 1995)
  • The Narrators (Rack Press, 2006)
  • Get Real! (Rack Press, 2011)
  • Acapulco: New and Selected Poems (The Melos Press, 2012)[3]
  • Of Earth, Water, Air and Fire: Animal Poems (The Melos Press, 2013)
  • Trench Feet (Rack Press, 2014)
  • The Secrets of the Sea (The Melos Press, 2015)
  • The Migrant Ship (The Melos Press, 2016)
  • A Dog’s Brexit (The Melos Press, 2017)
  • The Museum of Truth (The Melos Press, 2018)
  • The Yellow Wheelbarrow (The Melos Press, 2019)
  • A Quartet in Winter (Rack Press, 2020)
  • City Lights (The Melos Press, 2021)
  • Elsewhere: Collected Poems of Nicholas Murray (The Melos Press, 2022)
  • The Dictionary Speaks (The Melos Press, 2023)

Fiction

  • A Short Book About Love (Seren, 2001)
  • Remembering Carmen (Seren, 2003)

Non-fiction

  • So Spirited A Town: Visions and Versions of Liverpool (Liverpool University Press, 2007)
  • A Corkscrew Is Most Useful: The Travellers of Empire (Little, Brown, 2008)
  • Real Bloomsbury (Seren, 2010)
  • Crossings: A Journey through Borders (Seren, 2016)

Contributions to Anthologies

  • The Poet’s View: poems for paintings in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool ed Gladys Mary Coles (1996)
  • Other People’s Clerihews ed Gavin Ewart (Oxford University Press,1983)
  • The Robin Hood Book: verse versus austerity eds Alan Morrison and Angela Topping (Caparison, 2012)
  • Poets for Corbyn, Bennetts, Russell (Pendant Publishing, 2015)
  • New Boots and Pantisocracies eds WN Herbert and Andy Jackson (Smokestack Books, 2016)
  • Poems for Jeremy Corbyn ed Merryn Williams (Shoestring, 2016)
  • Poems from the Borders ed Amy Wack (Seren, 2019)
  • Ten Poems About Swimming ed Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch (Candlestick Press 2022)

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-9928034-5-2
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  2. ^ Bennetts, Russell (25 August 2015). "Yes we scan: Poets line up for Jeremy Corbyn". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  3. ^ "A Walk Around My Books". Nicholas Murray. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2013.

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