News and Events
Presteigne Festival 25 August 2017
I will be talking about my book Crossings and reading poems from The Migrant Ship at the Presteigne Festival on 25th August at Discoed Church.
TLS Freelance Column 30 June
I contributed a Freelance column to the TLS on 30 June based on a recent trip to Anaphi in the Cyclades and talking about guidebooks.
Ledbury Poetry Festival 2 July
I read from my new political satire A Dog’s Brexit at the Ledbury Poetry Festival on Sunday 2 July. Thank you to everyone who came and who made it such a success.
My New Pamphlet
My new political satire in verse A Dog’s Brexit, is now available from Melos. For once, I seem to have my timing right!
Tactical Reading (Eyewear)
I have contributed the concluding chapter, “The People Have Not Spoken: delusions of the new populism” to the new election book, Tactical Reading: a snappy guide to the snap election (Eyewear Publishing, Squint Books, £7.99)
Four New Poems in Scintilla
I have four new poems in the annual Welsh magazine Scintilla just published.
Three New Poems on MIR Online
I have three new poems published in the Mechanics Institute Review Online (Birkbeck University of London) in March.
Literary Review “Pulpit” column on the state of poetry February 2017
I wrote February's “Pulpit” column in the Literary Review on the putative Golden Age of poetry.
The Migrant Ship reviewed in Tikkun (USA) Spring 2017
My latest poetry collection, The Migrant Ship (Melos) is reviewed in the Spring issue of Tikkun where Joshua Weiner writes that the title poem is "at once beautifully spare, allegorically open, and made with tough craft”.
1 December “First Thursday” at Chapter Arts, Cardiff
I read from my new book Crossings: a journey through borders and my latest poetry collection The Migrant Ship (Melos) at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff on 1 December with Rhiannon Hooson and Rhian Edwards.
Crossings “Book of the Year” in The Irish Times
Martina Evans chose my book, Crossings: a journey through borders (Seren ) as one of her “Books of the Year” in The Irish Times, 3 December: “NicholasMurray unleashed his inner poet for his greatest nonfiction book, Crossings. An examination of borders of all kinds – cultural, political, linguistic – it is particularly poignant when he approaches liminal borders such as old age.” This follows an excellent review in The Tablet on 22 October 2016.
My Royal Literary Fund Podcast.
I talk about my biography of Aldous Huxley in a podcast on the Royal Literary Fund Website . I also have an article in the RLF “Collected” series, on political poetry, published on 15 August on the site.