Chris Murray
@chris-murray.bsky.social
An Irish poet.
My most recent book is "Her Red Songs" (Turas Press).
Site: https://textworksite.com
My Internet Archive : https://archive.org/details/@christine-elizabeth
Website 2008-2021: poethead.wordpress.com & its archive: https://ph1.omeka.net
My most recent book is "Her Red Songs" (Turas Press).
Site: https://textworksite.com
My Internet Archive : https://archive.org/details/@christine-elizabeth
Website 2008-2021: poethead.wordpress.com & its archive: https://ph1.omeka.net
And here you come, with a cup of tea
Wreathed in steam.
The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.
You hand me two children, two roses.
The very first Sylvia Plath poem that I read was "Kindness",
allpoetry.com/poem/8498417...
#SylviaPlath #Poets #Kindness #OTD
Wreathed in steam.
The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.
You hand me two children, two roses.
The very first Sylvia Plath poem that I read was "Kindness",
allpoetry.com/poem/8498417...
#SylviaPlath #Poets #Kindness #OTD
October 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
And here you come, with a cup of tea
Wreathed in steam.
The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.
You hand me two children, two roses.
The very first Sylvia Plath poem that I read was "Kindness",
allpoetry.com/poem/8498417...
#SylviaPlath #Poets #Kindness #OTD
Wreathed in steam.
The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.
You hand me two children, two roses.
The very first Sylvia Plath poem that I read was "Kindness",
allpoetry.com/poem/8498417...
#SylviaPlath #Poets #Kindness #OTD
Hope you got sorted, all my tech changed itself. I had to google how to change my analogue watch, and I haven't a notion how to do a heavy wooden clock that was a legacy.
I did my watch, adding a couple of minutes, I like to be ahead of myself.
I did my watch, adding a couple of minutes, I like to be ahead of myself.
October 26, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Hope you got sorted, all my tech changed itself. I had to google how to change my analogue watch, and I haven't a notion how to do a heavy wooden clock that was a legacy.
I did my watch, adding a couple of minutes, I like to be ahead of myself.
I did my watch, adding a couple of minutes, I like to be ahead of myself.
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/... Via Poetry Foundation
#Hopkins #FavouritePoets
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/... Via Poetry Foundation
#Hopkins #FavouritePoets
October 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/... Via Poetry Foundation
#Hopkins #FavouritePoets
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44389/... Via Poetry Foundation
#Hopkins #FavouritePoets
Myra Vennard (1929-2022) ‘Stormriver’ and other poems
poethead.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/s...
poethead.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/s...
October 3, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Myra Vennard (1929-2022) ‘Stormriver’ and other poems
poethead.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/s...
poethead.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/s...
In memory of Breda Wall Ryan, whose anniversary is today.
Fragmenting…defragmenting… by Breda Wall Ryan
poethead.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/f...
Raven Mothers was published by @doirepress.bsky.social
Fragmenting…defragmenting… by Breda Wall Ryan
poethead.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/f...
Raven Mothers was published by @doirepress.bsky.social
September 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
In memory of Breda Wall Ryan, whose anniversary is today.
Fragmenting…defragmenting… by Breda Wall Ryan
poethead.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/f...
Raven Mothers was published by @doirepress.bsky.social
Fragmenting…defragmenting… by Breda Wall Ryan
poethead.wordpress.com/2018/10/18/f...
Raven Mothers was published by @doirepress.bsky.social
"The Blasphemer's Banquet" By Tony Harrison was a film-poem written by Tony Harrison in response to the riots around Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses". An act of love and solidarity by Harrison. I read it first in his book "The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film poems".
RIP Tony Harrison
RIP Tony Harrison
September 27, 2025 at 8:56 AM
"The Blasphemer's Banquet" By Tony Harrison was a film-poem written by Tony Harrison in response to the riots around Salman Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses". An act of love and solidarity by Harrison. I read it first in his book "The Shadow of Hiroshima and other film poems".
RIP Tony Harrison
RIP Tony Harrison
Today is Poet Eavan Boland's birthday #OTD.
Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
Quarantine: poets.org/poem/quarant...
Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet: poets.org/poem/atlanti...
#MuchMissed #IrishWomenPoets #EavanBoland
Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
Quarantine: poets.org/poem/quarant...
Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet: poets.org/poem/atlanti...
#MuchMissed #IrishWomenPoets #EavanBoland
September 24, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Today is Poet Eavan Boland's birthday #OTD.
Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
Quarantine: poets.org/poem/quarant...
Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet: poets.org/poem/atlanti...
#MuchMissed #IrishWomenPoets #EavanBoland
Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
Quarantine: poets.org/poem/quarant...
Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet: poets.org/poem/atlanti...
#MuchMissed #IrishWomenPoets #EavanBoland
RIP Robert Redford.
All The President's Men is in my top ten movies of all time. Brilliant Movie.
All The President's Men is in my top ten movies of all time. Brilliant Movie.
September 16, 2025 at 12:41 PM
RIP Robert Redford.
All The President's Men is in my top ten movies of all time. Brilliant Movie.
All The President's Men is in my top ten movies of all time. Brilliant Movie.
‘Nocturne for voices one and two’ was performed by Una Lee in "Songs to Stay Awake to". Elizabeth Hilliard's series "How the World Begins Again" occurred post-pandemic. The series title is by Poet Eavan Boland, from "Code". www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...
Words ia800409.us.archive.org/31/items/noc...
Words ia800409.us.archive.org/31/items/noc...
September 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
‘Nocturne for voices one and two’ was performed by Una Lee in "Songs to Stay Awake to". Elizabeth Hilliard's series "How the World Begins Again" occurred post-pandemic. The series title is by Poet Eavan Boland, from "Code". www.rte.ie/radio/lyricf...
Words ia800409.us.archive.org/31/items/noc...
Words ia800409.us.archive.org/31/items/noc...
Some girls have hairs on their heads,
Artful girls have hares in their hearts.
From "The Hare Arch" by Eilis Ní Dhuibhne
The poem accompanied Alice Maher's exhibition 'The Night Garden'
Artful girls have hares in their hearts.
From "The Hare Arch" by Eilis Ní Dhuibhne
The poem accompanied Alice Maher's exhibition 'The Night Garden'
September 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Some girls have hairs on their heads,
Artful girls have hares in their hearts.
From "The Hare Arch" by Eilis Ní Dhuibhne
The poem accompanied Alice Maher's exhibition 'The Night Garden'
Artful girls have hares in their hearts.
From "The Hare Arch" by Eilis Ní Dhuibhne
The poem accompanied Alice Maher's exhibition 'The Night Garden'
Oread by H.D #Imagism #HildaDolittle
September 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Oread by H.D #Imagism #HildaDolittle
It is H.D's Birthday today. There will be lots of lovely links to her work. I am adding here #PENNSOUND. #HildaDolittle #HD #OTD writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...
September 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It is H.D's Birthday today. There will be lots of lovely links to her work. I am adding here #PENNSOUND. #HildaDolittle #HD #OTD writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/...
'Chaplet' poethead.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/c... by C. Murray
'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
#Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet
'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
#Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet
September 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
'Chaplet' poethead.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/c... by C. Murray
'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
#Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet
'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
#Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet
Three Red Things (Smithereens Press, 2013), archive.org/details/Thre... and A Hierarchy Of Halls (Smithereens Press, 2018), archive.org/details/sp23... are digitally accessible chapbooks. Both books can be accessed in a variety of ways Via @archive.org
or they could be in a folder, somewhere.
or they could be in a folder, somewhere.
July 7, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Three Red Things (Smithereens Press, 2013), archive.org/details/Thre... and A Hierarchy Of Halls (Smithereens Press, 2018), archive.org/details/sp23... are digitally accessible chapbooks. Both books can be accessed in a variety of ways Via @archive.org
or they could be in a folder, somewhere.
or they could be in a folder, somewhere.
"lily crowded window" first published Formafluens Literary Journal, Editor Tiziana Colusso. textworksite.com/2021/10/28/l...
#PostSolstice #CallaLilies #milk #Opaque #yellow
#PostSolstice #CallaLilies #milk #Opaque #yellow
June 22, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"lily crowded window" first published Formafluens Literary Journal, Editor Tiziana Colusso. textworksite.com/2021/10/28/l...
#PostSolstice #CallaLilies #milk #Opaque #yellow
#PostSolstice #CallaLilies #milk #Opaque #yellow
Sound performance of "Nocturne for Voices One and Two" by Una Lee from "songs to stay awake to": unalee.bandcamp.com/track/noctur...
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I put the text of the Nocturne onto @archive.org at dn720700.ca.archive.org/0/items/noct...
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I put the text of the Nocturne onto @archive.org at dn720700.ca.archive.org/0/items/noct...
June 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Sound performance of "Nocturne for Voices One and Two" by Una Lee from "songs to stay awake to": unalee.bandcamp.com/track/noctur...
&
I put the text of the Nocturne onto @archive.org at dn720700.ca.archive.org/0/items/noct...
&
I put the text of the Nocturne onto @archive.org at dn720700.ca.archive.org/0/items/noct...
Three short poems from 'Three Red Things' published in early June 2013 (Smithereens Press). The book is archived at @archive.org
PDF ia800205.us.archive.org/17/items/Thr...
#TwelveYears #chapbooks #earlybooks
PDF ia800205.us.archive.org/17/items/Thr...
#TwelveYears #chapbooks #earlybooks
June 2, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Three short poems from 'Three Red Things' published in early June 2013 (Smithereens Press). The book is archived at @archive.org
PDF ia800205.us.archive.org/17/items/Thr...
#TwelveYears #chapbooks #earlybooks
PDF ia800205.us.archive.org/17/items/Thr...
#TwelveYears #chapbooks #earlybooks
I have to pop out in 2 minutes BUT delighted with the post today. Washing Windows V; Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry
1975-2025. Edited by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social & @arlenhouse.bsky.social
There have been many Irish anthologies where the work of women poets has been reduced to the margin. #NotThis
1975-2025. Edited by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social & @arlenhouse.bsky.social
There have been many Irish anthologies where the work of women poets has been reduced to the margin. #NotThis
May 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
I have to pop out in 2 minutes BUT delighted with the post today. Washing Windows V; Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry
1975-2025. Edited by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social & @arlenhouse.bsky.social
There have been many Irish anthologies where the work of women poets has been reduced to the margin. #NotThis
1975-2025. Edited by @nualaoconnor.bsky.social & @arlenhouse.bsky.social
There have been many Irish anthologies where the work of women poets has been reduced to the margin. #NotThis
April 25, 2025 at 6:52 AM
I am delighted that the renaming of TCD Library to honour poet Eavan Boland will occur quite close to #IWD25: www.tcd.ie/news_events/... #Celebrations #TCD #EavanBoland #IrishWomenPoets
March 6, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I am delighted that the renaming of TCD Library to honour poet Eavan Boland will occur quite close to #IWD25: www.tcd.ie/news_events/... #Celebrations #TCD #EavanBoland #IrishWomenPoets
Here is Pierre's essay on Celan the aphorist from jacket2 jacket2.org/commentary/c...
February 28, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Here is Pierre's essay on Celan the aphorist from jacket2 jacket2.org/commentary/c...
From Pierre Joris translations of Paul Celan's "Microliths they are, little stones" poethead.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/m...
Pierre's translation work on Celan was profound and meticulous. I will miss him.
#poets #PierreJoris #PaulCelan #Microliths
RIP Pierre, Image Charles Bernstein
Pierre's translation work on Celan was profound and meticulous. I will miss him.
#poets #PierreJoris #PaulCelan #Microliths
RIP Pierre, Image Charles Bernstein
February 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
From Pierre Joris translations of Paul Celan's "Microliths they are, little stones" poethead.wordpress.com/2019/02/02/m...
Pierre's translation work on Celan was profound and meticulous. I will miss him.
#poets #PierreJoris #PaulCelan #Microliths
RIP Pierre, Image Charles Bernstein
Pierre's translation work on Celan was profound and meticulous. I will miss him.
#poets #PierreJoris #PaulCelan #Microliths
RIP Pierre, Image Charles Bernstein
The sitemap for Poethead in 2024 Via Via the Wayback Machine at @archive.org. Follow the link to access the cells and rings to search an archive of specific URLs. The site has been saved 513 times since it was established in 2008.
Calendar: web.archive.org/web/20250401...
#WaybackMachine #Archives
Calendar: web.archive.org/web/20250401...
#WaybackMachine #Archives
February 17, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The sitemap for Poethead in 2024 Via Via the Wayback Machine at @archive.org. Follow the link to access the cells and rings to search an archive of specific URLs. The site has been saved 513 times since it was established in 2008.
Calendar: web.archive.org/web/20250401...
#WaybackMachine #Archives
Calendar: web.archive.org/web/20250401...
#WaybackMachine #Archives
"Periphery" from Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2020)
January 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
"Periphery" from Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2020)