Tim Murphy
Articles by Tim Murphy
2022
2021
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Poetry
Against the Clock
In his new collection, Greg Delanty makes another valuable contribution to the poetry of environmental consciousness.
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Writing as a Weapon
In his posthumously published final collection, ‘Shadow of the Owl’, Matthew Sweeney employs the weapon of writing to cope with terminal illness. The book marks…
2020
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World Literature
Narratives Real and Surreal
The poems in Miriam Gamble’s new collection show her to be a truly imaginative writer: in ‘Plume’, the creamy-white heads of meadowsweet are compared to…
2019
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World Literature
Wounded Heart, Divided Soul
“He Honored Life” ‑ these were the words inscribed on Jack Kerouac’s tombstone after his death fifty years ago this month. Kerouac certainly “ate the…
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World Literature
On the Waves of the Surreal
Some Irish modernists – Flann O’Brien most obviously – have incorporated surreal elements in their fiction. The tradition has recently received a boost through the…