Category: Poetry

The Museum of Truth From The Manchester Review June 2018 by Ian Pople. Rack Press’s publisher, Nicholas Murray, has a new pamphlet, The Museum of Truth. Murray is an accomplished satirist and his pamphlet...

THE MIGRANT SHIP My new pamphlet collection of poems, The Migrant Ship is now available from the publisher, Melos. As well as the title poem it contains other poems on the theme of migration...

THE SECRETS OF THE SEA My latest poetry collection, published in September 2015. It contains the 2015 Basil Bunting Prize winning poem “Walk”. ‘The poems are often invigorated by all too human misprisions or...

GET REAL! On 12th May 2010, six days after the British general election had resulted in no party having an overall majority, David Cameron and Nick Clegg, leaders respectively of the Conservative and Liberal...

THE NARRATORS My second collection of poems The Narrators was published in 2006 by Rack Press. ‘The moments of real style that his clear sense of internal rhythm and strong feeling for the well-honed...

OF EARTH, WATER, AIR AND FIRE Animal Poems Published on 7 September 2013, pamphlet collection of poems from Melos Press. ‘a real treat, truly and indefatigably responsive to the beasts in question…an elemental menagerie,...

TRENCH FEET A new satirical poem on the Great War centenary A timely poetic challenge to the centenary clichés about the First World War O, greatcoats and duckboards, ponies and rats, poppies and skeletons,...

PLAUSIBLE FICTIONS Nicholas Murray’s first pamphlet collection of poems was published by Rack Press in 1995. ‘The style is spare and the diction honed’ – Poetry Wales ‘These precise and rather mysterious poems’ –...

ACAPULCO New and Selected Poems Acapulco contains nearly thirty new poems and work drawn from the earlier collections, Plausible Fictions and The Narrators. It concludes with the full text of Get Real! A powerful...