Events: Atlantic Poetry Prize

I’ll be making several appearances in support of the Atlantic Book Awards, in which I’ve been shortlisted for the Atlantic Poetry Prize, starting May 9th and leading up to the award ceremony on the 12th, and then in St. John’s shortly after. If you’re handy to any of these venues, I’d love to see you there. Details below.

May 9th, 7pm
Reading with: Don Domanski, Anne Simpson, and Herménégilde Chiasson
Saint John, NB – University of New Brunswick, Ward Chipman Building, Study Lounge

May 10th, 3:30pm
Reading with Don Domanski
Charlottetown, PE – Confederation Centre Library

May 12th, 4pm
Atlantic Book Awards Ceremony
Dartmouth, NS – Alderney Theatre

May 15th, 7pm
Reading with Marq de Villiers and Bernice Morgan
St. John’s, NL – The Studio, 272 Water Street

My thanks to the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia for organizing and footing the bill for all this travel, and to the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland Labrador for hosting the St. John’s reading.

Events: Princeton Reminder

As a reminder to whomever might wander in here from down New Jersey way, I will be reading at Princeton this Monday as part of a two event stint at the great Ivy League school. I’m very much looking forward to reading with poet James Richardson, whose is famous in part for his aphorisms—a fortuitous choice of reading partner because quite a number of readers have mentioned that the aphorism-like couplets that act as unifiers for the octave- and sestet-like elements of many of the sonnets in my new book have been among their favourite aspects of the work.

Monday, March 3, 7:30
Trinity Church, Princeton
with James Richardson
(public reading)

Tuesday, March 4, 4:30pm
209 Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton
(students and faculty only)

Events: Princeton University

I’ll be reading twice at Princeton in March, as both a guest of the Canadian Studies Department and Trinity Church. I’ll update the details below as they become available. The first reading will have local poets attached, and I’m excited to see who they might be. If you’re in the area and can make it, please stop by.

Monday, March 3, 7:30
Trinity Church, Princeton
with James Richardson
(public reading)

Tuesday, March 4, 4:30pm
209 Scheide Caldwell House, Princeton
(students and faculty only)

I’ll take an extra day ahead to visit some friends in my old NYC stomping grounds.

Event: BookFestWindsor

I’ll be appearing this coming weekend at BookFestWindsor. If you’re in town, please stop by one of the events and grab a book.

Publishing Panel (also appearing: Beatriz Hausner, John Metcalf, Derek Weiler, Dan Wells)
November 3, 5pm
Wilkinson Room (Main Floor)
Art Gallery of Windsor

Poetry Reading (also appearing: Stephen Cain, Dennis Cooley, Beatriz Hausner, Susan Holbrook, Tanis MacDonald, Karl Jirgens)
November 3, 5pm
Valiant / Rodzik (3rd Floor)
Art Gallery of Windsor

We can all retire to the Casino afterwards and try to break the bank.

Events: US Tour

Hi all, I’m off to Chicago and New York City to give some readings and have some drinks with old friends. Please see below. Even if I don’t know you (ESPECIALLY if I don’t), please come out and say hi.

Chicago:

The Bookslut Reading Series
October 4 at 7:30pm
Hopleaf (see here for info and map)

New York:

The Frequency Reading Series
October 7 at 2:30pm
The Four-Faced Liar (see here for info and map)

If other events are added, I’ll let you know here.

Readings update

Thanks to some great people and events, my fall is filling up quickly. Please see below for the reading venue nearest you.

Art Bar Poetry Series
Clinton’s Tavern, Toronto
September 11, 8pm

Aqua Books Series
Aqua Books, 89 Princess St., Winnipeg
Sept 19, 7:30pm

Bookslut Reading Series
Hopleaf, Chicago
October 4, 7:30pm

Frequency Reading Series
Four-Faced Liar, New York
[UPDATED] October 7, time TBA

International Festival of Authors
Harbourfront Centre
October 21, time TBA

Bookfest Windsor
[UPDATED] November 3
3pm “Where Books Are Born” (Publishing panel)
8pm “Poetry Reading”

Event: Reading in St. John’s

I forgot about this reading I’m giving as a guest of the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador on Tuesday, July 3rd at 8pm. If you’re in the area, I’d love to see you there!

Who: WANL Reading featuring George Murray
Where: LSPU Hall, 3 Victoria Street, St. John’s
When: July 3, 2007; 8pm

I’ll have copies of my new book for sale, but am unfortunately out of older volumes.

Events: Book Launch in St. John’s

Next week I am headed off to Quebec and Ontario to launch my fourth book of poems, The Rush to Here. When I return, I will launch the book in St. John’s at the Ship Inn. I hope you can join me then and there to help send the book off with a bang.

Here’s the info:

George Murray reading from The Rush to Here
(with introduction by Mark Callanan)
The Ship Inn
(265 Duckworth St, St. John’s)
April 23, 2007; 6pm - 8pm (with some hanging around after)

Please feel free to forward this announcement to all interested parties who won’t think of it as spam.

Events: Updates on readings

A couple of updates on locations/times for events coming in the next couple of weeks:

(Note venue change and addition of Babstock to line up)
Reading with George Murray, Ken Babstock and Simon Armitage
April 14th, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Nicholas Hoare Books
1366 Greene Avenue, Montreal
Tickets are $5 and include a free drink

and

(Note time change)
George Murray, Blaise Moritz and Roseanne Carrara
Thursday, April 19, 7pm
Tranzac Club
292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto

Events: Reading Tour

I’m reading and speaking this spring at several venues in support of my fourth book of poems, The Rush to Here, from Nightwood Editions. Below’s a list of dates for April. I hope you can make it to at least one of these events in Canada:

George Murray and Simon Armitage
Nicholas Hoare Westmount reading
Saturday, April 14, 3 pm
Bistro on the Avenue (Tickets: $12, includes 1 drink)
1362 Greene Avenue, Montreal

George Murray, “Building a Better Blog”
Ottawa International Writers Festival
Sunday, April 15, 6pm
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa

George Murray, George Bowering and Rob McLennan, “Poetry Cabaret #1”
Ottawa International Writers Festival
Sunday, April 15, 8pm
Library and Archives Canada
395 Wellington Street, Ottawa

George Murray, Blaise Moritz and Roseanne Carrara
Tranzac Club
Thursday, April 19, 8pm
292 Brunswick Avenue, Toronto

George Murray, Rick Crilly, Moez Surani
IV Lounge Reading Series
Friday, April 20, 8pm
326 Dundas St West, Toronto (across from AGO)

If the continental divide is getting you down, just buy the book either at Amazon.com or Amazon.ca.