This page is a text and audio repository for poetry lovers. It contains neither the usual or the mundane. It amuses me that the most intensely boring poets dominate Irish poetry discourse. It’s as if they desire to stand between the life of the poem and the reader in order to micro-manage, interpret, sanitise and kill the spirit of the poem for us. The below texts and essays are for poetry-lovers, and not for those people who believe that they alone can understand the poem and impart its knowledge to the reader!
C. Murray, 2025.
poetry
6 poems from MOTHERBABYHOME in latest issue of Blackbox Manifold
Daly, Catherine: In Medias Res: Five poems, freely adapted from Marguerite Porete
Magnificat by Geraldine Plunkett Dillon (1917)
H.D: Heliodora and Other Poems ISSUU
H.D: Heliodora and other poems [PDF]
Lyn Hejinian’s “My Life”
Indelible – The Escapism Issue
‘Skin in the Game’ (Indelible | AUD)
Indelible, Issue no. 6: The Feminine
‘‘a nesting of queer epiphanies in an invisible cat’s cradle’ by Jax NTP
Pierre Joris: NOMADICS Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too
Star Shavings’ by John Kinsella
Outports | Longbarrow Press Anthology [PDF]
Night Walks | Longbarrow Press Anthology [PDF]
Working Landscapes | Longbarrow Press Anthology [PDF]
Winter Songs | Longbarrow Press Anthology [PDF]
Alice Notley’s Magazines : A DIGITAL PUBLISHING PROJECT at Nick Sturm
Rootless – by Jennifer Matthews
Bernadette Mayer Reads ‘Walking Like a Robin’
Bernadette Mayer’s UTOPIA at Academia.Edu
Bone antler stone (Museum Pieces) by Tim Miller [PDF]
FormaFluens with C. Murray [PDF]
Sina Queyras “I Am No Lady, Lazarus”
Circling an absent centre: The poetics of Joanna Margaret Paul (Cy Mathews) (Jacket2)
‘Jezebel’ by Anamaría Crowe Serrano
a thousand prayers (Anne Sexton)
Gertrude Stein: The Complete Writings (2017)
Tender Buttons (1928 | Transition)
Tender Buttons | Gertrude Stein (1914)
Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan Selected by W.B Yeats
Hannah Weiner from “Eclipse” Magazine
Hannah Weiner: Code Poems from The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations (1982)
Hannah Weiner & Charles Bernstein Intv. for LINEbreak [PDF]
14 ways of being kinder to the earth (Dropbox/ Direct Download)
Poethead 2008-2021 Archive (Omeka)
An Index of Women Poets (Poethead by Chris Murray, 2008-2021)
Audio / Sound / Lectures / Visual
John Ashbery – The Skaters (PENNSound)
“Incantations of Veneration, Degradation and Protection for the Untamed Displaced Mis-placed Woman”
Emily Dickinson’s Drawer at PENNSOUND
Fornoff – Opposite of a Thank You”
The Third Mind – William S. Burroughs y Brion Gysin
H.D – Helen in Egypt (Pennsound)
Susan Howe reads from ‘My Emily Dickinson’ & discusses with poets (Jacket2)
Susan Howe reads from ‘My Emily Dickinson’ & discusses with poets at PENNSOUND
Marginalia for Susan Howe’s ‘Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives’ (Jacket2)
Susan Howe’s ‘Thiefth’ (Jacket2)
Figure of Speech by JLM Morton
Alice Oswald – Interview With Water
Alice Oswald – The Art of Erosion
Alice Oswald – On Behalf of a Pebble
Alice Oswald Podcasts (Oxford)
Cherry Trees – Alice Oswald and Katie Mitchell in Conversation
Sylvia Plath speaks to Peter Orr on Her Poetry
Sina Queyras reads “I Am No Lady, Lazarus”
digital repositories
Queen’s University , Belfast, Audio Library
Seamus Heaney Centre Digital Archive
Centre for the Art of Translation
Interactive
essays
I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without a narrative heritage (Irish Times)
Gold Friend by Chris Murray: The title is often the last piece of the jigsaw, Irish Times
Doris Lessing’s Little Known Poetry – Women Writers, Women’s Books (Women Writers, Women’s Books)
Tackling the catastrophic canonical neglect of Irish women poets and writers (Irish Times)
Four voices confront the absence of women in Irish poetry
A Modern Encounter with “Foebus abierat”; On Eavan Boland’s “Phoebus Was Gone, all Gone, His Journey Over” (Eavan Boland: Inside History)
Blanaid Salkeld and the Gayfield Press: the ‘noble art’ of private print publishing. (Irish Times)
Catriona Crowe – Testimony to a Flowering (DRB)
Kathy D’Arcy – A Meditation on Ireland, Women, Poetry and Subversion
Now I am a Tower of Darkness – Walt Hunter at Jacket2
Shifting Perspective in Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red by Amelia Brown for Ploughshares
Todtnauberg: In Heidegger’s Germany there is no room for Paul Celan.
Interview and poems at Bangor Literary Journal
chapbooks
Signature (Bone Orchard Press)
Welcome The Goldfinch For Aslı Erdoğan (Pandemic Chaplet)
Three Red Things (download) (Smithereens Press)
A Hierarchy of Halls (Smithereens Press)
A Hierarchy of Halls, Expanded Edition (Smithereens Press, Chris Murray)
Expanded editions and downloads at Internet Archive (Chris Murray)
The Temporary RASCAL Archives
While QUBSC moves and changes its RASCAL site in April 2023 my temporary archives are available here. I will also be building a small website for them. I thought to add them into this page as they represent three years of my work.
The Fired! Landing page at RASCAL
“I am not yet delivered of the past”; the poetry of Blanaid Salkeld (Irish University Review)
A Collation of National and International Tributes to the Late Eavan Boland
Remembering Eavan Boland; an open letter (Irish Times)
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