George Murray (poet)

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George Murray is a Canadian poet.

Murray is the editor of the literary blog Bookninja.com [1], an associate editor at Maisonneuve Magazine, and a contributing editor at several literary magazines and journals. After several years abroad in rural Italy and New York City, in 2005 he returned to Canada. He now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador.

Murray's 2007 book, The Rush to Here, a sequence of 57 sonnets, contributed to the late 20th/early 21st century revival of the sonnet form by reworking a number of traditional forms (Petrarcan sonnet, Spensarian, Shakesperian) into a new rhyme scheme that employs what the poet refers to as "thought-rhyme", conceptual and semantic pairings that work on the level of synonym, antonym and homonym to create intertextual meaning, as opposed to the sound bonding of traditional aural rhyme. This means a word such as "night" could thought-rhyme with "day" (antonym), "dark" (synonym), "knight" (homonym), "soldier" (synomym of the homonym "knight"), "thing" (anagram), etc. According to Murray this allows the poet to avoid "the faux Elizabethan sing-song sound that comes from the linguistic acrobatics necessary to complete the rhyme contract" (Northern Poetry Review).

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