Christine Murray
- Location
- Dublin, Ireland
- Birthday
- August 03
- Title
- Writer and web-nerd
- Company
- PEN
- Bio
- Poet, and web-nerd. I manage social-media accounts for Irish PEN. Member of the PEN International Women Writer's Committee.
MY RECENT POSTS
- My Recording of Sylvia Plath's
'Three Women'
May 22, 2013 08:01AM - About Wikipedia's Women
Problem
May 04, 2013 03:00PM - Irish women poets recorded at
SoundCloud
May 01, 2013 04:00PM - Not Bell-Jar, but Cylinder: In
Damage Seasons.
April 26, 2013 07:29AM - breac ; A Digital Journal of
Irish Studies
April 23, 2013 03:08PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “To me, the issue is
about categorisation and I
have heard
lots about it. To
wit,…”
May 06, 2013 10:21AM - “The wonderful visual
arts , then and now
.
In Cennini's time
it was all about
the…”
February 28, 2013 02:29PM - “as comment
:
"You would have
occasion in the service of
young
ladies,
especia…”
February 28, 2013 02:19PM - “Cheers ! I am enjoying
it too. I wanted to do
some
focus-reading to begin
Autumn…”
September 26, 2012 06:42PM - “I have written on some
poetry that was
composed
post-Holocaust. The
great poet Pa…”
August 28, 2012 09:34AM
Christine Murray's Links
My Recording of Sylvia Plath's 'Three Women'
I recorded Three Women by Sylvia Plath on SoundCloud. This is the link to the parts thereof.
Excerpted: Three Women, by Sylvia Plath
'There is a snake in swans.
He glided by; his eye had a black meaning.
I saw the world in it - small, mean and black,
About Wikipedia's Women Problem
‘There are less Wikipedia articles on women poets than pornographic actresses’ James Gleick
The above quotation is derived from Wikipedia’s Women Problem written by James Gleick at the New York Review of Books made during this last week. It interes… Read full post »
Irish women poets recorded at SoundCloud
Not Bell-Jar, but Cylinder: In Damage Seasons.
Not Bell-Jar, but Cylinder: In Damage Seasons.
A reading of In Damage Seasons, by Michael McAloran, published Oneiros Books 2013.
‘Clear the air! Clean the sky! Wash the wind! Take
the stone from the stone,
take the skin from the arm, take the muscle from
the… Read full post »
breac ; A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
The above image is taken from an article in the new breac journal edited by John Dillon and Nathaniel Myers at The University of Notre Dame.
breac meaning trout, launched just this month and I am already enslaved by the quality of the essays and poetry. It… Read full post »
Transverse threads, two women poets and Homer
The weft of Margaret Atwood‘s The Penelopiad is contained in and revealed through the chorus-line voiced by the twelve maids who were hung by Telemachus/
… Read full post »Poem for Malala Yousafzai
Fossil 1, A New Ulster Magazine
press-to
drop-by-drop
raindrop-and-sinew
the whole woman
not tamp-in
onto the still-living-soil
a new shape
embed-in
the bone and the
living-sinew-of
the still-warm blood
slowly-so
and in
Machinations III; Technique
Untitled acrylic on unprimed canvas, © Michael McAloran (2012)
labyrinthine churning13
[ between milk and the machinery to churn the clift is gotten
bigger
an unprimed unused “gesso” [gusto] towards
eagerly waiting rotationalisms
grinding the ceasure be… Read full post »
Machinations , Section II
Image is © Michael McAloran (2008)
objets trouvés et fragmentés dans ma poche4
[ the accidentality and contingency of art makes it able to be a
contestor
with philosophy and poetry to unprecedently break in the
conventional
codex of society and distort thes… Read full post »
The Cézannization of what wasn’t left , 'Machinations I '
Machinations by Aad de Gids and Michael McAloran. Published by The Knives and Spoons Press 2012
© Image Untitled Oil on canvas by Michael McAloran ( 2003)
Section I - histology slice 3
Ilya Kaminsky on Paul Celan, Poetry Magazine
Of strangeness that Wakes us by Ilya Kaminsky
Published Poetry Magazine, January 2013. A Publication of the Poetry Foundation
Todesfuge, by Paul Celan is a poem that I have mentioned on Poethead in a variety of guises since I first read the poet Paul Celan in
… Read full post »The Non Herein- by Michael Mc Aloran
The Poet As Minotaur In His Post-Catastrophic Citadel, The Non Herein- by Michael Mc Aloran.
Published Lapwing Publications, Belfast, 2012.
Acrylic Image by Michael Mc Aloran
Michael Mc Aloran's (third) collection of poems , The Non Herein- is published by Lapwing Publ/… Read full post »
A link to my 2012 list of poets and their websites
The following list is published onto my Poethead blog and preceeded by a statement by Eavan Boland , culled from her book , Object Lessons.
“I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there. Who… Read full post »
Eamon Ceannt Park Cycle at Bone Orchard Poetry
Week Ten of modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
Conceptualism and Unoriginality.
This is the last week of the MoPo course and it has been a wonderful time to read poets. We are not going to be bereft, as the site will remain open for a year. This week is an evaluation week. I stayed with the first assignment on… Read full post »
Week Nine of Modern and Contemporary Poetry At PENN
Week 8 of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
Week 8 of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
I feel as if I should be doing a retrospective analysis of the last weeks, but I am just returned from reading in Galway. The celebration : Ten years of Crannóg Magazine, thirty-one issues of the journal. Our readings were recorded. … Read full post »
Week Seven of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
Week Six of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
Week Six , BREAKING CONFORMITY: THE BEATS
Yes, this should be interesting ! We have gone past the mid-point of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry Course at Pennsylvania. We have read a lot of poets, submitted discussions, and we have even done some quizzes. At one point I forgot The Quizzes… Read full post »
Week Five of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
Week Five of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN is thematically centred in discussion on Anti-Modernist Doubts and takes in a lot of reading. The main divisions or sub-themes for reading are :
- Communist Poets of the 1930's
- The Harlem Renaissance
- Robert Frost
- Formalism of the 1950s
Week Four of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
Week Three of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
This week kicked off for me on Saturday 22/09/2012. We are reading the first chapter on the imagists. Poets being discussed are, Ezra Pound ,H.D. , William Carlos Williams , and Wallace Stevens. Interesting, I have a much tattered copy of the Cantos by Pound, but I had not read H.D/… Read full post »
Week Two of Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
Having learned to separate the essential from the non-essential in my quest for quality reading-time for the Modern and Contemporary Poetry Course at Pennsylvania , I have reduced myself to reading the main course-texts and listening to two /three poetry tutorials this week. I am immensely enjoying a… Read full post »
Modern and Contemporary Poetry at PENN
I read on Al Filreis' Twitter that the University of Pennsylvania was opening out a course in Modern and Contemporary Poetry, so of course I signed up to see how it was done. I am so very happy that I did, it gives me an opportunity to read again those wonderul… Read full post »
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