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• George Murray’s work has been shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Poetry Prize, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and the Pushcart Prize.


• Murray is the co-founder and editor behind the popular book blog Bookninja and the editor of NewPoetry.ca.


• The term Problematica is derived from the Latin incertae sedis, which is used in science as a substitute for a taxon of organisms whose classification cannot be decided. This is meant to reflect the scope of Murray’s styles and subjects, which have never been easily classified and show no allegiance to the schools that dominate poetry.

Audience

• Poetry readers and writers


• Readers of Bookninja, George’s blog

George Murray is the award-winning author of eight books of poems and aphorisms as well as a book for children. His poems have appeared in magazines and journals around the world. He grew up in rural Ontario and has spent time abroad in Italy, Mexico, and New York City but now calls St. John’s, Newfoundland, his home.

“Problematica is Murray’s radiant invitation to come into the wild arena where language reveals the world page-by-dogged-page. Murray’s poetic thermometer is all the seasons at once. This creaturely feat is the work of an unusual imagination that moves endlessly from ruin to the sublime. Take this record of a poet long at work with you the next time you go to wonder. It is a masterwork of clarity, depth and delight.” — Canisia Lubrin, author of The Dyzgraphxst

“George Murray’s imagination is audacious, astonishing. In his poems, a keen awareness of the interiority of others, the ridiculous passage of time, and the untameable but wounded wildness of language are not subject matter but cardinal points. Reading through his new and selected, it’s obvious Murray has never hitched his work to any bandwagon. This freedom is intoxicating, instructive. He’s an innovative sonneteer. (Thought-rhyme!) He writes hashtag poems — the best I’ve read. I believe contemporary Canadian poets are writing some of the most exciting poetry around. Without a doubt, George Murray is one of those poets.” — Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine