Paul Murphy (author)

Paul Murphy is a writer, critic and artist. He has written one book of poetry, "In the Luxembourg Gardens" (University of Salzburg), as well as three poetry pamphlets and a book of literary criticism, "T S Eliot's Post-Modernist Complaint" (Postpressed, Australia).

Biography

He was born in Belfast in 1965. He studied at the University of Warwick, gaining a BA in Film and Literature. From there he went to Queen's University Belfast to study for an MA on T.S.Eliot and the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. He has just finished a stint as writer-in-residence at the Albert-Ludwig Universitat, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany.

Career

His poetry, literary criticism, book reviews and travel writings have been published in England, Ireland, Germany, Austria, India, New Zealand, Australia and the US. He has read from his work in Paris, London, Cambridge, Galway and Belfast. His poetry has been translated into Italian and German (both German and Mecklenburger Platt dialect).

Publications

*9.92 TS Eliot’s "The Death of Saint Narcissus". Article/essay relating TS Eliot’s poem The Death of Saint Narcissus to Lacanian archetypes in Essays in Poetics, University of Keele.
*9.93 TS Eliot’s "Circe’s Palace and On a Portrait". Article/essay relating other early TS Eliot poems to Lacanian types in Essays in Poetics, University of Keele, also published in "The Symptom".Further essays from this thesis excerpted and published in "NYCBigCityLit", "Transference", "The Symptom - a journal of Lacan Studies", "A Chides Alphabet".
*08.03 "T.S.Eliot’s Post-Modern Complaint" (PostPressed, Australia) book based on his Phd thesis
*3.92 Poetry pamphlet "The New Life" (Lapwing Publications) published in Belfast, readings in Belfast, Galway, Cambridge and Paris.

Also poems published in the following journals: "Bark" (Belfast), "Gown Literary Supplement" (Belfast), "The Cutting Room" (South Yorkshire Writer), "Hybrid", "The Haiku Quarterly", "Envoi", "First Time" (Sussex), "The Hammer" (Belfast), "Exile" (Suffolk), "Presence", "The Bad Poetry Quarterly", "Never Bury Poetry", "Connections", "Krax", "Poetry Now", "Time Haiku", "Fire", "The Journal", "Iota", "Poetry Scotland", "Black Mountain Review", "Curlew", "The Quarterly Muse", "The Honest Ulsterman" (as Mephisto), "Braquemard", "Buzzwords", "Marginalia" (supplement of "Monas Heiroglyphia"), "Scintilla", "The Black Rose", "The Purple Rose", "Hermes" (Australia), "Markings", "Eclipse", "Current Accounts", "Linq" (Australia), "Brittle Star", "Erratica", "Minotaur" (USA), "das frohliche wohnzimmer" (Wien), "Orbis", "Other Poetry", "Dichtungsring" (Germany), "The Delinquent" (UK), "Poetry Monthly", "Monkey Kettle", "Decanto", "The Wolf".E-Zines: "Seeker Magazine" (USA), "Baker Street" (USA), "Can We HaveOurBall Back?" (USA) "The Poetrycan" (UK), "BigCityLit" (USA), "Aileron" (USA), "Cordite" (Australia), "Transference" (UK), "Poetry Hood" (USA), "Sugar Mule", (USA), "Marxist Cultural Logic" (UK), "Snakeskin" (UK), "BathHouse" (USA), "Great Works" (UK).10.96. Review of Brendan McMahon’s "Enemy Lines" (University of Salzburg Press) in "The Haiku Quarterly" and "The Honest Ulsterman".01.98. Book of poetry entitled "In the Luxembourg Gardens" (University of Salzburg Press)08.98 Review of Milan Kundera’s novel "Identity" (Faber & Faber) in "The Honest Ulsterman", review of Michael Hofmann’s "Approximately Nowhere" (Faber & Faber) in "The Haiku Quarterly" and "The Honest Ulsterman".07.99 Review of Gunther Grass’ "Selected Poetry" (Faber & Faber) in "The Honest Ulsterman" + Review of Adrien Henri’s "The World’s my Lobster" (Bloomsbury) in "The Honest Ulsterman" + 07.99 Review of Joan Maizel’s "Stepping Gently" (Bumblebee Press) in "The Honest Ulsterman".05.00 Book of poetry "Letter to Milan Kundera" (published by Ygdrasill, online e-zine)08.00 Review of Ian M Emberson "Natural Light" (Fighting Cock Press) and Bill Pickard "Half a Ton: Selected Poems" (Samson Press) in "The Poet’s Voice", review of Seamus Heaney’s "Beowulf" (Faber & Faber) in "The Haiku Quarterly".01.01 Review of "The Cambridge Companion to Womans’ Writing", (Cambridge University Press) ed. Lorna Sage, in "The Honest Ulsterman".Edited e-zine THE ENGINE (www.theengine.net)Travel writing published in "The Honest Ulsterman", "The Idiot of the Family: Reflections on the Sicilian Mafia", under pen name Mephisto, also "Notes on Post-Franco Spain", "Attic Nights" (published in "Erratica", England, "Transatlantico", Italy), "Der Vergangenheit" (Published in "Baker Street 8" and "Poetry Express"), "Malta", "Macedonian Moonlight" (published in "Seeker Magazine"), "Up the Republic! (Notes on North-Central Spain" - published in "Seeker Magazine"), "The Brothel Keepers Daughters, reflections on European Brothels" (published in "Transference").11.01 "Wagner - an Irish Perspective"01.02 Reviews of films "From Hell" and "The Lord of the Rings" ("Antipodium" e-zine, Australia)02.02 Reviews of film "A Beautiful Mind" and TV documentary "The Boy Can’t Help It" for "DAIL Magazine", London + article on radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza. Reviews of Rossellini and Fassbinder (Gruppenbild mit RWF) in Berlin, the Berliner Ensembles production of "Jungfrau von Orleans" and many other reviews of theatre and film in Berlin:www.parametermagazine.orgCambridge University Press

Gallery exhibitions

He has small exhibitions in Cafe Litfass, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-W, Germany, internet gallery, Via Guelfa, Firenze, Toscana, Italia. He also has work in Art Etc gallery Belfast, galleries in Schwabing, Muenchen and London.

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