Littoral

The bleak and blasty sands of Crosby Beach provide the stage for a cast of mysterious and sometimes sinister figures: scavengers and shrimpers, raucous boys, a lonely priest and a disillusioned soldier, with the steely waters of the Mersey, passing ships, and the play of sunlight on distant hills an ever-restless backdrop. In these vivid dramas Nicholas Murray reveals to us the bitter sweetness of departure and return to a place known with the intense intimacy of childhood, and weighs the loss and gain/ that exile forces.


Praise for Nicholas Murrays work:

A real treat . . . an elemental menagerie in which the poets own delight through verbal magic becomes ours. 
Christopher Reid, on Of Earth, Water, Air and Fire

The poems have an emotional intelligence, a wit, I really admire.
Michèle Roberts, on City Lights See more