Selected Poems of popular, iconoclastic Cork-based poet Gerry Murphy, with a Foreword by John Montague. Murphy's poetry collections include A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards and four previous collections from Dedalus, Rio de la Plata and All That , The Empty Quarter , Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus and Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and Pocket Apocalypse, his translations of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, appeared in 2005 from Southword Editions. New and Selected Poems features generous selections from all of those books together with some 30 new poems in a section entitled 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life'.
Selected Poems of popular, iconoclastic Cork-based poet Gerry Murphy, with a Foreword by John Montague. Murphy's poetry collections include A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards and four previous collections from Dedalus, Rio de la Plata and All That , The Empty Quarter , Extracts from the Lost Log-Book of Christopher Columbus and Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend. His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and Pocket Apocalypse, his translations of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, appeared in 2005 from Southword Editions. New and Selected Poems features generous selections from all of those books together with some 30 new poems in a section entitled 'The Psychopathology of Everyday Life'.