George Murray
George Murray
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I am certainly suffering from a modicum of performance anxiety.
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Well, we all start thinking we're going to be Romantic rock stars, but then reality hits and you realize no one reads you but other poets.
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Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.
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New York was breaking my concentration and disintegrating my thoughts.
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I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
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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 suppress the vast majority of what I write.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
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I do try to let what is obviously unintended yet naturally good stay in.
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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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The whole competition thing disturbs me. Not that I wasn't a part of it when I first started.
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The poetry community here has been extraordinarily welcoming.
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It's a bit of a crapshoot out there with young writers right now anyway.
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In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.