Category: book-making
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from a series by Chris Murray
cold starlings beech gather their cacophonies to the gates copper -leaved golden -throned Break bread for them, bring water for them. blue mountain, the sleeping houses a hot-house orchid Mabel chases her ball Beautyberries subsist, |her peripheries stripped| Wintering – a drop of rain blesses each white globe benediction for the tiny bird there Break…
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fragments 1 & 2 published belfield literary review (N°2)
from “Violence” I am breathing. I am breathing lightly as, light as, shell — / breath as, moth — / breath as, bird — / breath moon’s faces a triptych sets Mars’ red against turquoise — a sister, (less 6) * serious now, it is — (a purple sonority pageant of silks, their faces —…
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‘hook’, and: ‘sequins’, and: ‘spool’, and: ‘red on gold, the new dress’ published indelible literary journal, issue no.6: ‘the feminine’
hook a hook for an eye this ribbon for a slip there’s a pigeon in the pot and tree makes the room your foot on the boards your head in the sky no mind if your stockings snag are splinter-caught the red thread frayed or snag walk now on swollen feet on feet that are…
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leaf // settles published ucd pandemic archive
From the Lares Series. V. leaf // Settles Jewelling | nowhere her Garnets tempering | Scarlet on steel the Sky— a Leaf there is © Chris Murray Published Poetry in Lockdown; A Pandemic Archive, UCD Online URL: https://libguides.ucd.ie/lockdownpoetry The Lares series was first published in The Indelible Literary Journal, January 2021 and was written in…
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‘winter street’ published jacar press
the black mountains rise up cities cloud-urban citadels not the crow clang-tapping a tin post not the screel and soar of the gull can prevent it tails of berries strew the ground littered already with wasp-hasps wet leaves rain washed the trees out my body in its wet and dry calls yours it does not…
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‘nocturne for voices one and two’ performed lyric fm
My poem Nocturne for Voices One and Two – excerpted below this note, was first published in the book Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2020). Una Lee produced the poem in her album Songs to stay awake to in 2020. Una Lee’s interpretation of the poem is featured in How The World Begins- Irish Women In…
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