From the blurb: Why do we erect borders? What are they for? Can we do without them? Why do they generate such passion? With a major global refugee crisis and a highly polarised debate in the UK about membership of the European Union, poet and biographer Nicholas Murray’s lively and original exploration of the idea of borders – literal and metaphorical – could not be more timely. Drawing on personal experience, anecdote, literary and imaginative sources, he crosses and re-crosses our idea of the border, examining the dividing lines, margins, barriers, limits, thresholds, liminal spaces, exclusive categories that we erect between ourselves and others or even inside ourselves.
"A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short" - Schopenhauer.
Wednesday 8 June 2016
Crossings: A Journey Through Borders
My latest book, published on 7 July, can now be ordered in advance from Seren Books.
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