Tag: Chris Murray
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‘sans’ published southword literary journal
sans it is all ceremony it is all the cloths all gathered-in it is white tailor’s chalk in a neat triangle it is the blanket-stitch before the machine it is the neighbour woman with her bone-pick pulling stitches one by one from the curtain lining the [bone-pick] is ivory coloured a little larger than a…
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Making ‘Den of Sibyl Wren’ by Salma Ahmad Caller
Notes on Salma Ahmad Caller’s process for the making of ‘Den of Sibyl Wren’. The Den of Sibyl Wren is my response to Chris Murray’s A Hierarchy of Halls published by Smithereens Press It is my response to words Chris wrote about how she feels about this poem, and what she sees in her…
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‘The Brightest Jewel’ poems by Chris Murray and Aad de Gids
. The Brightest Jewel The perfume of rosemary for remembrance. Little botanic flower baptised in Glas Naíon, the stream of the infants. I see the pink flower of your hand reaching up to your blind mouth. I breathe your name so you will live. The stream of the infants. Cymbidium…
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A Preview of My New Book ‘She’.
The first edition of SHE was published by Oneiros Books in 2014. 82 Pages Perfect-bound Paperback. The cover painting image is © Anastasia Kashian, with great thanks to David Mitchell for design, and to Michael McAloran for accepting the book on behalf of Oneiros Books. Two poems from The Island Sequence of ‘She’ sea is a womb…
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