Reasons Here silver fingered strings trembling with two Russian rings. Recalling it all. The reasons why we reared yardbirds long disappeared yet a cotton crop always reappears. If sleep is a dotted dress then we wear this zero life. And we are also a false bird’s chirp. And never more deadly when we are chanting […]
Lifesaving They don’t do it anymore, breathe into the mouth to save. We had learnt it reluctantly, lined up beside a recumbent dummy, waiting to take our turn to kneel at that mouth. The simplest things disturb – at night when the fluoros shut off and the cover is pulled, the tiles swabbed – there […]
Christine Murray is well-known as a champion of women poets via her Poethead blog and the Fired! project. It would be all too easy for this activity to obscure the fact that Murray is a poet in her own right, and on the evidence of bind: a waking book that would be a real pity. […]
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Earth Music, Eithne Lannon, Turas Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-9957916-71, €12.00 Exposure, Julie-ann Rowell, Turas Press, 2019, ISBN 978-0-9957916-9-5, €12.00 So Long, Calypso, Liz McSkeane, Turas Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-9957916-0-2, €12.00 bind, Christine Murray, Turas Press, 2018, ISBN: 978-0-9957916-4-0, €12.00 Crunch, Anamaría Crowe Serrano, Turas Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-9957916-2-6, €12.00 White…
Christmas Box There is honey and chocolate on our doorstep since Christmas—sweet box and coral flower— one on either side. The heuchera with ruffled cocoa-coloured leaves hunkers in the corner, but the sarcococca or sweet box is where we step inside by design so that on nights as dark as winter and full of storm […]
