Chris Murray

A Reading List for Women in Translation Month 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses For Women in Translation Month, observed annually during the month of August, we asked the many independent literary presses and magazines that make up our membership to share with us some of the lite...

August is Women in Translation Month #WITMonth and we're happy to see 3 @twolinespress.bsky.social titles "Mending Bodies," "Backlight," and "The Queen of Swords" on @clmporg.bsky.social's reading list!

👀📚 www.clmp.org/news/a-readi...

The absolute best Pride and Prejudice too

A photograph by John Kinsella to represent star shavings. There are a series of manipulated images throughout the text

Star Shavings by John Kinsella: media.sas.upenn.edu/pennsound/au... [PDF]
Essay Jacket2: jacket2.org/commentary/j...

transcriptions day today

Archived @archive.org
PDF: ia601008.us.archive.org/17/items/ree...
Info/download options: archive.org/details/reed...

‘Enmesh’ Published Washing Windows V, Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry 1975-2025. EnmeshI knew when I hung the black dress at Michaelmas.My garden is alight. Light flows, aslow transmogrification from blackishgrey to a popping green. Every little thing is in its place, nothing i…

‘Enmesh’ Published Washing Windows V, Women Revolutionise Irish Poetry 1975-2025.

textworksite.com/2025/07/21/e...

@arlenhouse.bsky.social

Waiting for something to derive.

#digital #Sunday.

Reed Songs I-IV | PDF | Poetry The document discusses reed songs and references different sections of poetry or passages. It mentions a double-reed carrying a muffled tune from leaf to root, and that there is substance to both fall...

Reed Songs I-IV
www.scribd.com/document/196...

Unfortunately there's so many pop-ups and crap on the pages. I will likely transfer the entire to my @archive.org account soon. This was published in A New Ulster #7.

The opposite of parochial Despite being awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2016, Gillian Allnutt remains beneath the radar even of many well-informed readers. This is

'These are profound and beautiful meditations on ordinary lives and the miracle of everyday language.'

Thanks to @victoriamoul.bsky.social for this wonderful review of Gillian Allnutt's tenth collection #Lode in @thetls.bsky.social of 25 July.
www.the-tls.com/regular-feat...

Kathleen Jamie · Poem: ‘Considering a Hike to Yon Tree’

feel the moon groan as she
learns the ropes again
tangled among branches

that you bend, so you say,
to shake her free.

from ‘Considering a Hike to Yon Tree’, by Kathleen Jamie:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

aye they will, They're at the point where they really have to keep going tbqh. It is enormous, gargantuan.

(I stayed in Leuven a few times and there's a high rise ghost-hospital at the top of the street where I stayed - literally never used, pitch black except for helicopter lights: asbestos)

YouTube video by Hack The Movies The disappearing pigeon zombie in Shaun of the Dead

RIP Ozzie, thinking of this homage: www.youtube.com/shorts/hodFb... in shaun of the dead

Sylvia Plath, Poppies in July (Ariel)

“And her yellow music caught in the throat of birds” by C Murray And her yellow music caught in the throat of birds   I waited a minute on the wind, on your roof, outside.   She had been awaiting me in the middle of the day, having come warm over those seas to f…

'And her yellow music caught in the throat of birds,
agus a ceol buí a thógail i scornach na h’éanaithe.'

poethead.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/a...

(I wrote this in Irish originally, but only retained one line of it)
#Archive #TwelveYears

'Tincture' by the late Andrea Gibson.

beautifulmars “A sea snail, most precious egg, as if It had touched the ruby feather of a Bluebird. A most precious thing, Bird-egg-shattered, dust in my pores.”  — Christine Murray, “Delicate” (MarsPoetica subm...

I remember HiRISE did a #BeautifulMars project based on poetry, before #Musk bastardised everything. Mine was published onsite: beautifulmars.tumblr.com/post/1418702... Thanks to Ari 🌼

Poetry: “Lares” series, by Christine Murray These poems are dedicated in gratitude to Eavan Boland 1944-2020

Break the glass
that shields morning's flame.
Proceed from your room—

'Lares' was written in dedication to Eavan Boland (1944-2020) and published in Indelible. EIC, Roula-Maria Dib. indeliblelit.com/2021/01/05/p...

💙💙

There were stars clearly there earlier come again through the veil sweet hindrance what hurries crisp light at the fringe heaven's dew upon the earth

Bill Corbett

Alice Oswald, Full Moon

Beloved, visionary Fanny Howe, a beacon of ferocity, honesty & integrity—a fighter in all senses of the term—has moved on. Read her. The powerful voice does not depart. It only grows louder….

1940-2025

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

“Struggling through the work is extremely important -- more important than publishing it.”

-- Toni Morrison

Screenshot of the website "Our Future Memory" Protecting the Past to Power the Future The Digital Rights Statement aims to safeguard the essential digital activities of libraries, archives, and museums (collectively referred to as “memory institutions”). It urges policymakers and communities to ensure these institutions retain the same rights and responsibilities online that they have historically held offline.

Today at LIBER 2025 in Lausanne, we launched Our Future Memory—a campaign to guarantee libraries & archives the digital rights to collect, preserve, lend & cooperate.
Stand with us: ourfuturememory.org
#ProtectOurFutureMemory

www.internetarchive.eu/protecting-t...

I am all about accessibility with the books. We could be doing more.

Three Red Things (Smithereens Press, 2013), archive.org/details/Thre... and A Hierarchy Of Halls (Smithereens Press, 2018), archive.org/details/sp23... are digitally accessible chapbooks. Both books can be accessed in a variety of ways Via @archive.org

or they could be in a folder, somewhere.

#OurFutureMemory

One issue for me as a writer in a country which doesn't seem interested in *digital accessibility* for the arts (Only very slight improvement in digital access during and post-Covid).

My chaps are 100% accessible and have many readers at @archive.org archive.org/details/@chr...

Alice Oswald, Falling Awake

Online now:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thanks Sam 🌼

When Raising Your Voice Is Not Enough to Be Heard The sounds of protest and resistance produced by women are caught in a political contradiction, as Anne Carson’s ‘The Gender of Sound’ explores

'Could sound be the fascia or connective tissue that holds together the enduring metaphor of the body politic?... The mapping of gender onto sound ... persists, and shapes who will be heard, when, and on what terms.'

Anne Carson’s The Gender of Sound reviewed @artreview.bsky.social