Nicholas Murray

Nicholas Murray is a poet and literary biographer based in Wales and London who has written lives of Aldous Huxley, Kafka and Bruce Chatwin. He is the author of Get Real! (Rack Press, 2011) a verse diatribe against the last coalition Government. His new poetry collection, The Secrets of the Sea is published in September by Melos Press. He is a former Labour Party activist and was assistant Secretary of Bermondsey Labour Party in the early 1980s when Peter Tatchell unsuccessfully stood for the Bermondsey Parliamentary seat. He is the winner of the 2015 Basil Bunting Prize.