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  • “Passing through” and other poems by Betty Thompson

    Balloons A stream of them – long and ribboning before they were inflated; breath-filled they turned into globes and cylinders: fat demi-lunes ably shaped by the long-fingered magician who, in his downtime offstage from the Hippodrome, relaxing by the fire, legs stretched across the hearth, would plunge those long hands into his pockets, to pull […]

    Chris Murray

    October 18, 2020
    25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets
    An Index Of Women Poets, Betty Thompson, Coffee House Poetry, Crannóg, Cyphers, If Ever You Go: A Map of Dublin in Poetry & Song, Painting the Vestibule, Poetry Ireland Review, The Scaldy Detail, The SHoP
  • “Time” by Fidel Hogan Walsh and Julie Corcoran

    2020, Memories Blinded in a winter’s dread no prophet foresaw. Spring’s new life erupted into a chaos of fear. Desolation replaced the warmth of a hug. Children banished from our everyday lives! Ahh, the blessings — a swift journey home to the unexpected happiness under one roof. Chatter, laughter — a family enduring dark days […]

    Chris Murray

    October 10, 2020
    25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Saturday Woman Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, How Words Play, new poetry, poetry, Small Books, Visual Poetry
    Fidel Hogan Walsh, Julie Corcoran, Lockdown Poetry, New Poetry From Ireland, Pandemic Launch, Visual Arts
  • Poems from ‘My Name Is’ by Polina Cosgrave

    Starship The blackest of holes, the hottest of suns, the craziest captain alive. Surrender to none, be gentle to some, stay tough as the skies collide. The milkiest way is over my head. They’re chasing me mile after mile. This starship is mine, try and catch me, I said. This marvellous starship is mine. Self-portrait […]

    Chris Murray

    October 5, 2020
    25 Pins in a packet women creators, How Words Play
    My Name Is, new poetry, New Poetry From Ireland, Pandemic Launch, Polina Cosgrave
  • ‘Imprint’ by C. Murray

      Amber her halls— by the periphery trees open out sky’s lungs. There are small birds below, they sing her boundaries: clay and Blue– this living thing. I touch her skin, it strikes White heart -wood blood runs white with light. She tells her tale, Silver beech, a wren– © C. Murray 2020 Read A […]

    Chris Murray

    September 29, 2020
    25 Pins in a packet women creators, poetry
    a running poem
  • Poems from ‘Alchemy’ by Fiona Perry

    Postpartum You are as naked as a shucked oysterso, my breasts are slashed and raining pearlsfor you, my suckling child. The universehas too many doors. A terrifying flowerunfurled overnight to tell me if they tookyou away or carted you off to dielike pink tender veal. I would be preparedto stand on my own mother’s shouldersto […]

    Chris Murray

    September 26, 2020
    25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, How Words Play, new poetry
    Fiona Perry, New Poetry From Ireland, Pandemic Launch, turas press
  • Poems from “Venus in Pink Marble” by Gaynor Kane

      Window weather The Icelanders have a word that means just that.A murky day that you know is betterenjoyed from the comfort of a window seat;soft mizzle cleansing leaves shiny and bright. When webs become crystal dreamcatchers,or perfect drops form on the telephone linesand slide slowly down like the oilon the wire of the indoor […]

    Chris Murray

    September 18, 2020
    25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, Contemporary Irish Women Poets, How Words Play, poetry
    An Index Of Women Poets, Books Launched During COVID19, Circling the Sun, Gaynor Kane, Hedgehog Press, Memory Forest, Pandemic Launch
  • Gold Friend by Chris Murray: the title is often the last piece of the jigsaw (Irish Times)

    This is an excerpt from a reflection on Gold Friend published online in the Irish Times (16/09/2020). Thanks very much to Martin Doyle who offered me the space to write about the book and about Poethead. …The convergence of influence and imagery that is inherent in Gold Friend began at Drimnagh Castle and works from […]

    Chris Murray

    September 16, 2020
    Dispossession
    Books Launched During COVID19, Pandemic Launch
  • Celebrating the launch of ‘Gold Friend’ 2020

    This film includes a sound adaption of ‘Nocturne for Voices One and Two” by Una Lee, a talk by Salma Ahmad Caller about the art for ‘Gold Friend’ and ‘A Hierarchy of Halls’, and the art that you can see on this site every time you click in. The piece is called ‘Making Den of […]

    Chris Murray

    September 9, 2020
    poetry
    Books Launched During COVID19, Pandemic Launch
  • ‘Gold Friend’ (Turas Press, 2020) 💛

    ‘Gold Friend’ (Turas Press, 2020) 💛

      Gold Friend was launched on September the 8th 2020. This film includes a sound adaption of ‘Nocturne for Voices One and Two” by Una Lee, a talk by Salma Ahmad Caller about the art for ‘Gold Friend’ and ‘A Hierarchy of Halls’, and the art that you can see on this site every time […]

    Chris Murray

    August 24, 2020
    poetry
    Books Launched During COVID19
  • “Womanhood” and other poems by Amara George Parker

    womanhood womanhood did not sneak up on me when my thighs were stained with first blood that arrived so unexpected so connecting it didn’t happen when hormones sprouted lumps and bumps that others stared at and touched it was not given to me nor did I grab it in the first instance of fucking or […]

    Chris Murray

    August 23, 2020
    25 Pins in a packet women creators, A Sunday Morning Poet, poetry
    Aeva, Amara George Parker, An Index Of Women Poets, Earth Pathways Diary, i n k s p a c e, She Who Knows, Spoon Knife, Sufi Journal, Voice of Eve
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