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Chris Murray

@chris-murray.bsky.social
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Irish poet. Most recent book is "Her Red Songs" (Turas Press, 2024). Website: textworksite.com My Internet Archive : archive.org/details/@christine-eliz… Website 2008-2021: poethead.wordpress.com & its archive: ph1.omeka.net

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tulipidendron lyriofolium Joseph Beuys, 1948
Watercolour pencil

a golden leaf with stem from the Tulip tree winged by a translucent paper over the leaf
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Deborah Rose @deborahrosereeves.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Pages from Alessandro Piccolomini’s 1586 astronomical maps, which for the first time depicted the stars without their corresponding mythological figures, enabling the reader to easily identify the constellations
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Kathleen Raine
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kimdorman.bsky.social @kimdorman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Emily Dickinson, fragment (c/o Joseph S. Aversano / Half Day Moon Press)
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I See the moon, and the moon sees me
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
'Tree is Real Silver' textworksite.com/2022/11/14/t... First published Poetry Ireland Review N°138, An Eavan Boland Special Issue. Editor, @nessao.bsky.social journals, and: bibliography, and: publication notes: textworksite.com/journals-bib... #EavanBoland #Poems
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‘tree is real silver’ published Poetry Ireland Review (N°138)
Tree is real silver I. Birds tremble there alighting — (lighting) its stained glass recedes and within each bright ening light ening shape the song of a bird embeds a garnet— Each red-feathe…
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Robert Lax
does
all 
speech
turn
to
song


?
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My Internet Archive account has #16 objects, Incl. 3 electronic chapbooks, some essays, & previously published group poems. Three Red Things is headed towards 1000 hits at archive.org/details/Thre... archive.org/details/@chr... @archive.org
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Three Red Things By Christine Murray Libre : Christine-Elizabeth Murray : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A chapbook published by Smithereens Press (Dublin, Ireland) June 4th 2013.
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"Rain" by Maurice Scully archive.org/details/Rain... From the Smithereens Press Archive of #30 items, incl. 27 chapbooks & 3 magazines at archive.org/search?query... @archive.org @nemoloris.bsky.social
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Rain, by Maurice Scully : Smithereens Press, Maurice Scully : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Poetry Chapbook
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Nicolas Robert @robertsnickc.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
One of the iconic Caryatids overlooking the city of #Athens. #Photography by Walter Hege (1930) #art
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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Eavan Boland, from “Moths” “Apples rust on the branches”
Eavan Boland, from “Moths”

“Apples rust on the branches”
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
then this: the sound of everything
repeating
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Reed Songs I-IV was written at the Coral beach near Carraroe (An Dóilín), dn721802.ca.archive.org/0/items/reed.... {PDF} Published, Cycles (Lapwing Press, 2013) & A New Ulster, issue #7, 2013 archive.org/details/reed... @archive.org
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
Etc.


Alice Oswald, Falling Awake
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
The Eclipse Archive houses the great Gwendolyn Brooks' "Riot" at eclipsearchive.org/projects/RIO... I 💓 archives.
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Alice Oswald lectures. The Art of Erosion, podcasts.ox.ac.uk/art-erosion Interview With Water, podcasts.ox.ac.uk/interview-wa... Lines, podcasts.ox.ac.uk/lines-alice-... These lectures span late 2019-2023, the majority of them occurred during lockdowns & pandemic. podcasts.ox.ac.uk/people/alice...
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The Art of Erosion
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I kiss my hand To the stars, lovely-asunder Starlight, wafting him out of it; and Glow, glory in thunder; Gerard Manley Hopkins from 'The Wreck of the Deutschland' #Images #Poets #Hopkins #Kissmyhandtothedappled-with-damsomwest
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
"Lares" ia601006.us.archive.org/31/items/lar... {PDF} Archived at @archive.org, archive.org/details/lare... First published Indelible Literary Journal (2020), Editor, Roula-Maria Dib. #HouseholdGods, #EavanBoland , #Indelible #UAE
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. Terry Tempest Williams
medieval text

mythological bird-woman (avian humanoid) with crown sitting on branch over obscured printed word

Alkonost? East Slavic?
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
"Periphery" from Gold Friend (Turas Press, 2020)
A capture of the poem "Periphery" which has too many characters to fit into a bluesky post ... it is about wing-settling birds in peripheral hedges.
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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Li-Young Lee, “One Heart” Look at the birds. Even flying is born out of nothing. The first sky is inside you, open at either end of day. The work of wings was always freedom, fastening one heart to every falling thing.
Li-Young Lee, “One Heart”

Look at the birds. Even flying
is born

out of nothing. The first sky
is inside you, open

at either end of day.
The work of wings
was always freedom, fastening
one heart to every falling thing.
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Reed Songs I-IV was written at the Coral beach near Carraroe (An Dóilín), dn721802.ca.archive.org/0/items/reed.... {PDF} Published, Cycles (Lapwing Press, 2013) & A New Ulster, issue #7, 2013 archive.org/details/reed... @archive.org
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Joseph Lewczak (Truth Seeker) @truthseeker59.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
This modernist artwork is titled "By the Door" (also commonly referenced as "Woman in Window" or "Untitled"). It is a 1.1.2 lithograph from 1955 by the prominent Finnish modernist artist Gösta Diehl (1899–1964).
 The piece showcases Diehl's signature Cubist and colourist style, incorporating fragmented geometric perspectives and strong angles. It deconstructs a traditional scene by simultaneously layered perspectives of a woman, window panes, and doorway outlines.
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
'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
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“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…
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Anselm Kiefer für Ingeborg Bachmann 2023-25
Painting - Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf and ash on canvas]


Sunflowers in a field
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
C. Murray 'starlings' : C. Murray : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive share.google/wh6RiTd26z0b... Starlings, published "Gold Friend", Turas Press, 2020. The book was launched online because of lockdowns and social distancing. #nesting
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C. Murray 'starlings' : C. Murray : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#wren #flight #gardens
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Barbara Rogers (b.1942) Ancient Embellishments, 2010. Oil on canvas with gold leaf.
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Years from now someone will come upon a layer of birds and not know what he is listening for these are the days when the beetles hurry through dry grass hiding pieces of light they have stolen W. S. Merwin, Early One Summer Ph. Yamamoto Masao
A bird looks down upon its shadow self
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Spring: trees flying up to their birds. Paul Celan
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Tom Snarsky @tomsnarsky.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ronald Johnson, feat. Lévi-Strauss
earthearthearth
earthearthearth
earthearthearth
earthearthearth
earthearthearth
earthearthearth

“any piece of counterpoint includes
a silent part 
for the rhythmic movements of heart and
lungs”

(lilacs)
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Paul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Shower of st☆rs P✧ge from Galileo Galilei's, Sidereus nuncius, 1610 ✵
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Achill Horses, 1939, painting by Mainie Jellett, 1897-1944, Irish artist (National Gallery of Ireland).
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
RIP Moya Brennan 1952-2026 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsSs... #Respect #Moya #Clannad #Bono #IrishArts
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Clannad - In A Lifetime (feat. Bono) (Official Video)
YouTube video by ClannadOfficial
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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 13/04/2026
God said: Let the dark be dark. Let the stars shine properly. And let darkness with no stars heal the damage caused by light… —Robin Fulton Macpherson, “In the Dark” Today, 13 April, is the start of #InternationalDarkSkyWeek #poem #poetry #DarkSkies #DarkSky #astronomy idsw.darksky.org
In the Dark
Robin Fulton Macpherson

God said: Let the dark be dark.
Let the stars shine properly.
And let darkness with no stars
heal the damage caused by light.

Men said: Let there be light all
night through, where there is no-one
much or no-one at all, let
the gathered haze from street-lamps,
undying brand-names, full-blaze
unpopulated windows
stain the undersides of clouds
even when nights are cloudless.

God said: Light itself needs rest.
Some things are best seen, unseen,
in darkness unhindered by
Great Light. Me, for example.
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phillip crymble @phillipcrymble.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
One of the many memorable passages in Robert Lowell's "The Art of Poetry" interview with Frederick Seidel in the spring 1961 issue of The Paris Review.
I seesaw back and forth between
something highly metrical and something free; there isn't any one way to write. But it seems to me we've gotten into a sort of Alexandrian age. Poets of my generation and particularly younger ones have gotten terribly proficient at these forms. They write a very musical, difficult poem with tremendous skill, perhaps there's never been such skill. Yet the writing seems divorced from the culture. It's become too much something specialized that can't handle much experience. It's become a craft, purely a craft, and there must be some breakthrough back into life.
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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
H.D. Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish. I cover you with my net. What are you—banded one?
H.D.

Are you alive?
I touch you.
You quiver like a sea-fish.
I cover you with my net.
What are you—banded one?
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The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 06/04/2026
Irish writer and poet Gabriel Rosenstock dies aged 76
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Irish writer and poet Gabriel Rosenstock dies aged 76
Born in Co Limerick, Rosenstock won numerous awards and wrote primarily in Irish
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"There are more blue flowers in Spring" textworksite.com/2025/02/24/t... First published, The Honest Ulsterman, "Found Poem, Spring" at www.humag.co/poetry/found... #Archives #Spring #BookPoems
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There are more blue flowers in Spring, from ‘Found Poem’ (The Honest Ulsterman)
There are more blue flowers in Spring. Winter has passed. The ancient tower is abeyant.Trees rush to cover it. Dwarf irises and hyacinths,lift their powdered arms.Narcissi crowned, ignores them. A …
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Mary's Song by Sylvia Plath Sylvia Plath – Mary's Song | Genius share.google/nc4PrdeDnYGr... #Easter #Ariel #SylviaPlath #TheRestoredEditionAriel
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Sylvia Plath – Mary's Song
Sylvia Plath takes an ordinary task, cooking Sunday lunch, and finds symbolism and meaning beyond the domestic. She draws significance from the heat of a roast joint, applying it
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
#wren #flight #gardens
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Irish summertime begins this weekend. It was 3 degrees when I woke up, and am pretty sure there's a storm or hail on the way. #Summertime #tourism #AlmostApril
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Saturday plans: At Home: A Portrait, Walter Crane.
Woman in brown dress with white shawl leaning against white marble mantle piece with blue and white tiles, cat sat in front of fireplace on rug, vase with purple flowers on mantle piece, painting.
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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · 27/03/2026
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Unveils Digital Archive of the Artist’s Entire Body of Work By Emma Taggart mymodernmet.com/georgia-okee... Georgia O'Keeffe Museum: access-ok.okeeffemuseum.org #art #culture #womenhistoryMonth
Photograph of painting Red Canna (1923) by Georgia O'Keeffe on display at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Photo taken February 2023.

The canvas is consumed almost entirely by cascading waves of deep crimson and scarlet. Broad, voluptuous petals curve and overlap in smooth, sensuous arcs. Flashes of deep orange glow at the centre where the stamens emerge, and small scrolls of dark green leaf curl at the corners, providing the only relief from the overwhelming warmth of the reds. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_O%27Keeffe#/media/File:Red_Canna_(1923)_by_Georgia_O'Keeffe.png
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Sam Rasnake @samrasnake.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Here by Wisława Szymborska A gale stripped all the leaves from the trees last night except for one leaf left to sway solo on a naked branch. With this example Violence demonstrates that yes of course – it likes its little joke from time to time. [Tr. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak]
Here by Wisława Szymborska 

A gale
stripped all the leaves from the trees last night
except for one leaf
left
to sway solo on a naked branch.

With this example
Violence demonstrates
that yes of course –
it likes its little joke from time to time.

[Tr. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak]
Here by Wisława Szymborska 

A gale
stripped all the leaves from the trees last night
except for one leaf
left
to sway solo on a naked branch.

With this example
Violence demonstrates
that yes of course –
it likes its little joke from time to time.

[Tr. Clare Cavanagh & Stanisław Barańczak]
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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
'Chaplet' poethead.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/c... by C. Murray 'Chaplet' by Alice Maher is used for the poem courtesy of Alice Maher and the Green on Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. #Print #VisualArts #AliceMaher #Chaplet
Chaplet a lambda print by Alice Maher
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
‘After days of labor, mute in my consternations, I hear my song at last, and I sing it. As we sing, the day turns, the trees move.’ ~ Wendell Berry. #BookWormSat #InternationalDayOfForests #WorldPoetryDay
Woodland Fairies, painting of fairies running and flying around a tree and over water in woodland setting, moonlit night scene. 🖼️ A W Crawford
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Billy Mills @billymills.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/the-bright...
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The Bright Stones by Paul Celan
"like humble dog roses, that’s how they open"
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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Paul Celan, Breathturn; tr. Pierre Joris
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