stephen murphy

Stephen Murphy is one of the nicest guys in Irish Poetry. Humble to a fault, and a little shy of his own success there is no arguing that he is indeed a poet of the people. His work is scathing, controversial, warm and full of insight into…

August is mad for the poems, mad for them. It was almost impossible to choose what to feature,  with stellar line-ups popping up all over the country. I couldn’t possibly mention everything, so these are just a few of the highlights. If you…

Monday 15th February I wrote poems for all the people who have not made me want to kill them. The muses of my past. The poems were wet, soggy and flaccid. I wrote them anyway, as if to burp up the last of the poetry in me. Tuesday 16th…