George Murray Quotes

• I don’t think there’s anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.

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• In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

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• It’s a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.

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• The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn’t a part of it when I first started.

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• I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.

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• I feel as though I’ve fooled the world into thinking I’m an adult and now they’re letting me procreate.

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• My self-editing process is intense.

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• I was writing notes, but not composing poems. The Hunter began to develop out of this fragmented process.

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• I am still interested in the long or serial poem, but have written a few smaller things. I may start sending to journals again in a year or so… that’s about it.

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• I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.

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• Humour is a fine line to walk in poetry, as in fiction. I just think it’s harder to write. It’s harder to keep the respect of the reader too.

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• Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it’s no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it’s really just about the money, the perceived prestige.

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• A sequence works in a way a collection never can.

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• I’ve often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it’s been doing to my poetry when I’m not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.

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• I suppress the vast majority of what I write.

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• I’m not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.

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• In fact, in some ways, I actually feel much more confident about the quality of Carousel than I do about The Cottage Builder’s Letter: probably because of its cohesive nature.

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• I think, for me, humour needs to be used like a strong spice – sparingly.

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• I wanted to rock back and forth between myth and distant futures, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. It felt a bit like prophecy and a bit like storytelling.

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• I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.

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George Murray (28)

Birth:	1971
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Poet

About

George Murray is a Canadian poet. He was a contributing editor at Maisonneuve magazine, and a contributing editor at several literary magazines and journals. He has written several poetry books include: The Rush to Here, The Cottage Builder's Letter, Carousel, Glimpse: Selected Aphorisms, The Hunter, A Set of Deadly Negotiations, and Whiteout.

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