Gerry Murphy (poet)

Gerry Murphy' is an Irish poet.

Life & work

Gerry Murphy was born in Cork City in 1952. He still lives in Cork. His work is witty, openly intellectual and often satirical. He attended University College Cork where he was part of a remarkable resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague. Among his contemporaries there were Thomas McCarthy, William Wall, Greg Delanty and Sean Dunne. He is a hugely popular reader of his own work.

Publications

Collections

• A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (Cork, Commons Press, 1988, Three Spires Press, 1992)
• Rio de la Plata and All That (Dublin, Dedalus, 1993)
• The Empty Quarter (Dedalus, 1995)
• Extracts from the Lost Log Book of Christopher Columbus (Dedalus, 1999)
• Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend (Dedalus, 2002)
• End of Part One, New and Selected Poems (Dedalus, 2006)

Translation

• His translation of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska was published as Pocket Apocalypse (Cork, Southword Editions, 2005).

References

• Irish Writers Online: [1]