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Reflections and observations of freelance poet and literary biographer.

Newsletter · By Nicholas Murray · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    Poetry Boom and Bust (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    The Robot Will See You Now, Sir (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Jul 21, 2026

    Saying please and thank you (opens the original)

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    If you pick up a well-known poetry collection from the past 50 years or so you may well find at the back an Acknowledgements section or you might not. I just pulled a random four titles off the shelf to my right [the “L’s” and the “Ms”] and see that Philip Larkin’s The Whitsun Weddings has no acknowledgements; Jamie McKendrick’s The Sirocco Room has a plain list of where some of the poems appeared as does Derek Mahon’s Lives. Michael Longley’s The Slain Birds has actually two pages of acknowledg

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