Coming next spring from ECW Press: QUICK, new aphorisms. The image here shows the title in a different colour from the background, but only for online image purposes. On the printed book the title will be the same colour as the cover background and will be embossed instead. So on first glance, you’ll see only “APHORISMS GEORGE MURRAY” and then picking it up will reveal the title. Neat!
A few of the poems from my upcoming book Diversion make a rare appearance at Lemon Hound. Sadly, Lemon Hound will be closing shortly, so I’m glad to have squeaked back in there. It was a hub for genuine and passionate discussion and publication of poetry and literature. One of the great sites of the country, for people who love words. It’ll be missed.
I haven’t been keeping very good care of this site! Too many other projects on the go and not enough exciting news. A few readings and publications here and there, but I’ve mostly been concentrating on my wife Elisabeth de Mariaffi‘s new novel, The Devil You Know. Check that out. I’m always at her to update her site, so here I am taking my own advice.
Today, I received the cover art for my new book coming in the Fall, so I thought I would post! David Gee has done it again. This is the third cover he’s done for me and my third book with ECW. I love it. What amazes me is that for all three, Glimpse, Whiteout, and Diversion, he got it exactly right the first time.
If you want to read one of the poems from it, check out this page at Hazlitt.
A gathering of story-minded kids and parents on Saturday, May 3, at 10am at Chapters on Kenmount Road in St. John’s. Come one, come all. The author and illustrator will be on hand, as will cake and Wow Wow-based crafts. Come see us!
What: Kids Launch for Wow Wow and Haw Haw
When: Saturday, May 3, 10am
Where: Chapters, Kenmount Road, St. John’s
The adult book party for Wow Wow and Haw Haw will be held on May 2nd at Leyton Gallery in St. John’s. The next day there will be an event for children at the Chapters on Kenmount Road. More to come on that later. For now, check out the wine and cheese and books and paintings at the Leyton Gallery:
Wow Wow and Haw Haw Launch
May 2, 7pm
Leyton Gallery, 6 Clifts-Baird Cove Road, St. John’s
Original artwork from the book on display
Three new poems excerpted from a series I’m working on for publication in the fall of 2015 (with ECW again) are up at Lemon Hound. Pleased because I feel LH is one of the most significant venues for poetry and poetry criticism in North America, so it’s nice to be up there with all the cool kids.
My first book for children, Wow Wow and Haw Haw, gets a nice mention in the spring preview at the Canadian industry paper Quill & Quire. Following a previous mention in Publisher’s Weekly, I hope this means all the librarians now know it’s going to be a thing this spring!
My first book for children, in collaboration with artist Michael Pittman, has been announced in both the Quill and Quire and Publisher’s Weekly. It’ll appear in Spring 2014 from Breakwater Books. It’s going to be a thing of beauty — hardcover with a nice dust jacket and full-colour paintings by Sobey Prize nominee Pittman. I had already owned three of Michael’s paintings, purely as a fan of his work, when his name came up as illustrator. I was so thrilled he said yes. We jived really well in the development of this book and hope you’ll all enjoy it.
I have a Word Power column in the back of the new Reader’s Digest (Feb 2013). Subject: Video Gaming. It’s a sort of vocabulary game wherein I provide you with a term and three possible definitions, and you need to figure out which is right. Last one I did was on “Poetry”. This one should be harder, and might set a few regular RD readers on edge, at least until they ask their kids/grandkids for help. There’s no link online, that I know of, but here’s a link to the main Reader’s Digest page for the print issue. There’s another one coming up this spring, on “coffee culture”. Fun stuff.
Interesting new web magazine Canadian Poetries has published two of the more obscure poems from my latest book Whiteout. It’s a really well-done site with lots of great poetry and text about poetry. Check it out.
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