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Tim Murphy

The outline of a shark in almost fluorescent green on a beige background

The wheeling Maybirds

Tim Murphy reviews The Shark Nursery by Mary O’Malley (Carcanet, 2024)

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Illustration showing an open Hand with what loloks like a ribbon running over the palm. On closer inspection the ribbon is a road with a small car on it.

The good way home

Tim Murphy reviews Popular Song by Harry Man (Nine Arches Press, 2024)

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Close up of a doorknocker on a large old wooden door. The knocker is metal and shows a pig or boar with a ring in its mouth.

The Leeds Mummy abandons his chariot

Tim Murphy reviews A to Z of Superstitions by Ian Harker (Yaffle Press, 2023)

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Watercolour-style illustration showing an olive branch with a goat standing on a leaf on the left and a man sitting on a leaf to the right.

An guish / rather than a guish

Tim Murphy reviews 54 Poems: Selected and New by John Levy (Shearsman Books, 2023)

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What does Tim Murphy say?

I learned to appreciate poetry at school in Cork. Work by Yeats, Eliot, Dylan Thomas, Patrick Kavanagh, Thomas Kinsella ...

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A Friday clearly isn't a Friday without an abstract poetry book cover to describe. I am almost, but not quite, at a loss for words. Here we go, poetry fans! Pop art seems to be the style choice. Purple jagged forks of what looks like lightening cross diagonally passing behind white cloud like formations (although one does seem to have a dark doorway in, so it may not be a cloud). Green ribbons, a blue sky and a red dot top right complete the picture. Ah ... poetry.

I am cobalt and cherry pulp lyric

Tim Murphy reviews VISIONS & FEED by Maria Sledmere (HVTN Press, 2022)

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A close up showing two torn pieces of pink paper with slightly burnt edges.

Snowfall mixes with burning ash

Tim Murphy reviews To An Occupier Burning Holes by Ken Evans (Salt, 2022)

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Delicate watercolour showing thin branches with red flowers and two small birds flying nearby.

There are some things that can’t be washed away

Tim Murphy reviews Sing Me Down from the Dark by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana (Salt, 2022)

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A black and white woodcut print. It is abstract in nature, but seems to show glasses, one upturned with a spider in it.

Put me in a drum and bang me

Tim Murphy reviews The Barman by Helen Bowell (Bad Betty Press, 2022)

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Some white text on a bright blue background, the text is a small part of the words "Notes from the North".

Bullets, grenade-shards, mortar casings and barricades

Tim Murphy reviews Notes from the North by Suji Kwock Kim (Smith|Doorstop, 2022)

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