This page is a text and audio repository for poetry lovers. It includes text, audio (and podcast links), PDFs of original works, and access to the types of poetry that may be considered too long for the ‘usual’ publisher. The usual publisher is concerned only in the production of books for the market. The poetry he sells is artificial, overtly schooled, and severely limited. Readers know that poetry needs to transcend the homogenity of market to thrive. Readers also know that limiting discourse kills poetry. This page doesn’t contain the usual or the mundane. It amuses me that the most boring people currently dominate poetry discourse. It’s as if they need to stand between the life of the poem and the reader in order to micro-manage, interpet, sanitise and kill the spirit of the poem for the reader. The usual type of publisher is anti-poem.
C. Murray, 2023
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)
essays
I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without a narrative heritage (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)
Circling an absent centre: The poetics of Joanna Margaret Paul (Cy Mathews) (Jacket2)
Gertrude Stein: The Complete Writings (2017)
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.
poetry
‘Jezebel’ by Anamaría Crowe Serrano
Magnificat by Geraldine Plunkett Dillon (1917)
Bernadette Mayer Reads ‘Walking Like a Robin’
Daly, Catherine: In Medias Res: Five poems, freely adapted from Marguerite Porete
Alice Notley’s Magazines : A DIGITAL PUBLISHING PROJECT at Nick Sturm
Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan: Selected by W.B. Yeats
Contemporary Irish Women Poets 2008-2021 (Poethead Index)
a thousand prayers (Anne Sexton)
‘‘a nesting of queer epiphanies in an invisible cat’s cradle’ by Jax NTP
Bone antler stone (Museum Pieces) by Tim Miller [PDF]
An Index of Women Poets (Poethead by Chris Murray, 2008-2021)
Hannah Weiner from “Eclipse” Magazine
Hannah Weiner: Code Poems from The International Code of Signals for the Use of All Nations (1982)
Poethead 2008-2021 Archive (Omeka)
Bernadette Mayer’s UTOPIA at Academia.Edu
6 poems from MOTHERBABYHOME in latest issue of Blackbox Manifold
Gertrude Stein: The Complete Writings (2017)
H.D: Heliodora and Other Poems ISSUU
H.D: Heliodora and other poems [PDF]
Hannah Weiner & Charles Bernstein Intv. for LINEbreak [PDF]
Interview and poems at Bangor Literary Journal
Outports | Longbarrow Press Anthology [PDF]
Rootless – by Jennifer Matthews
Sina Queyras “I Am No Lady, Lazarus”
Tender Buttons (1928 | Transition)
Tender Buttons | Gertrude Stein (1914)
Star Shavings’ by John Kinsella
14 ways of being kinder to the earth (Dropbox/ Direct Download)
Indelible – The Escapism Issue
‘Skin in the Game’ (Indelible | AUD)
Indelible, Issue no. 6: The Feminine
Audio / Sound / Lectures / Visual
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
Susan Howe reads from ‘My Emily Dickinson’ & discusses with poets (Jacket2)
Susan Howe’s ‘Thiefth’ (Jacket2)
The Third Mind – William S. Burroughs y Brion Gysin
“Incantations of Veneration, Degradation and Protection for the Untamed Displaced Mis-placed Woman”
Emily Dickinson’s Drawer at PENNSOUND
Susan Howe reads from ‘My Emily Dickinson’ & discusses with poets at PENNSOUND
Marginalia for Susan Howe’s ‘Spontaneous Particulars: The Telepathy of Archives’ (Jacket2)
Figure of Speech by JLM Morton
Fornoff – Opposite of a Thank You”
H.D – Helen in Egypt (Pennsound)
Queen’s University , Belfast, Audio Library
Seamus Heaney Centre Digital Archive
Sina Queyras reads “I Am No Lady, Lazarus”
Sylvia Plath speaks to Peter Orr on Her Poetry
Centre for the Art of Translation
Pierre Joris: NOMADICS Meanderings & mawqifs of poetry, poetics, translations y mas. Travelogue too
The Temporary RASCAL Archives
While QUBSC moves and changes its RASCAL site from 31/03/2023- 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.
Chris Murray 