Update: Site Moved

As part of a recent exodus from Blogger to the much more customizable Wordpress, I've moved this site lock, stock, and barrel to here. Please update your bookmarks, if you've used georgemurray.blogspot.com to get here in the past. It's probably easiest to just ensure your bookmarks point to georgemurray.ca, which will always automatically forward to whatever page I'm using as my main stage. Thanks!

News: Cover

Below is a mockup of the cover for the new book The Rush to Here. It was designed by Carleton Wilson of Toronto using a panoramic view camera photograph by John Haney of St. John's. With Nightwood being based in BC, it's really a cross country effort. Thanks to John for letting me use one of his wonderful photos.



There is a minimal page up on the Nightwood site and, if you're not near a local bookstore, you can now purchase the book on pre-order at Amazon.ca or Amazon.com. Hope you like it and hope you buy the book.

News: Forthcoming 2007 Book Finally Titled

My new book, which will appear this coming spring (2007) with Nightwood Editions, has finally been titled. It will be called The Rush to Here and will be comprised of four fourteen sonnet sections that work with the new forms and rhyme I've developed specifically for this book. The rhyme is based on what I call "thought" or "concept" rhyme, wherein ideas bounce off each other at the end of lines instead of sounds. This allows me to work within the formal and generative constraints of the sonnet while avoiding the trap of the sing-songy, faux Elizabethan sound that is often the by-product of modern dabbling in antiquated forms.

Several of these sonnets already appeared in the Frog Hollow chapbook, A Set of Deadly Negotiations, as well as in issues of Nthpositon, New American Writing, the New Quarterly, and Painted Bride Quarterly.