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"Acapulco" contains nearly thirty new poems as well as workdrawn from the earlier collections, "Plausible Fictions" and "The Narrators". Murray's wonderful reading covers a broad field including wry observations of his native Liverpool, profoundly moving love poems, and concludes with the full text of "Get Real!",a powerful traditionally-constructed satirical "broadside" on thecoalition Government which was performed by the Iris TheatreCompany at St Paul's Covent Garden in 2011.
Nicholas Murray
Nicholas Murray is a freelance author and journalist based in Wales and London. Born in Liverpool he is the author of several literary biographies including lives of Franz Kafka, Aldous Huxley, Bruce Chatwin, Andrew Marvell and Matthew Arnold, two collections of poems, and two novels. His biography of Matthew Arnold was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year in 1997 and his biography of Aldous Huxley was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Prize in 2003. His biography of Franz Kafka has been translated into nine languages.
"Acapulco" is published by Melos Press