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Chris Murray

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Irish poet. Recent book "Her Red Songs" (Turas Press, Dublin). Personal Site: https://textworksite.com My Internet Archive Acc: https://archive.org/details/@christine-elizabeth Website 2008-2021: poethead.wordpress.com & its archive: https://ph1.omeka.net

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · Nov 14

By way of a brief introduction. My name is Chris. I am a page poet with a strong interest in digital preservation and dissemination. Adding my publications page here: textworksite.com/journals-bib...
(I have been doing my own archives Via Omeka, I.A and others since I began publishing) #Poetry

journals, and: bibliography, and: publication notes.

Book Publication 2024 Her Red Songs published Turas Press, Dublin, 21/02/2024. Online URL: Acknowledgements for Her Red Songs. Online URL: How rewriting my poetry collection after a heart attack he…

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 5h

Just because Clegg has never experience a thought.

AI should be treated the same as plagiarism, end of story. it takes me 2+ years to do a book.

Do cheap elsewhere.

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · Jan 6

'I feel the energy of the light that makes the stone break into music.' Nelly Sachs in a letter to Paul Celan, from 'Flight and Metamorphosis' tr. Joshua Weiner (F,S &G, 2022)

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sanctorium.bsky.social @sanctorium.bsky.social · 7h

Emily Dickinson

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · Aug 20

Reed Songs I-IV were first published in A New Ulster #7 (2013) and in 'Cycles' (Lapwing Press, 2013) ia801008.us.archive.org/17/items/ree... [PDF]

I archived them at @archive.org archive.org/details/reed...

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

so I wrote to the Minister about the selection criteria this morning.

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, Ok. I agree.

I am coming from writing and have spent years just wondering at the toxic influences in the writing world, that have stagnated a teeny little pool. We see the same publishers being rewarded and it trickles down into bursaries, fellowships, media etc.

its bullshit

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

The basis for selection should be on artistic and cultural merit.
This occurs in the artist exemption (through the tax system) and in the BIA. it does not occur in other award opportunities where the same people are constantly awarded.

The #BIA must remain free from influence

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know the distribution. I am in the scheme as a poet/essayist. I am just very concerned that the selection criteria stay as neutral and random as is possible.

(untainted by influence - cos that's a shit show)

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · Sep 9

'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

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

Selecting for the Basic Income for the Arts must remain random and on the basis of certain criteria.

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

I believe that the criteria for awarding artist exemption and BIA are fairer than the arts council.

It is based on cultural merit in the tax system and that extends into the BIA.

Not who your publisher has dinner with/ blows a line with.

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

The tax exemption scheme is fair.
The BIA is fair.

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

I agree about random selection once the criteria are met, because *some* artists funding schemes have been circle-jerking for years.

You just have to look at who is getting funding and follow their lists of, e.g, writers/publishers etc etc.

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 2d

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget, www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Basic income support scheme for artists to be made permanent and opened to new entrants in budget

Negotiations down to the wire, with five big-spending departments yet to agree their budget allocations

www.irishtimes.com

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · Jan 23

"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 · 3d

They, like all creatures, being made
For the shovel and worm,
Ransacked their perishable minds and found
Pattern and form
And with their own hands quarried from hard words
A figure in which secret things confide.

Eavan Boland, from “The Poets”
#poetry #writer

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 6d

The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

-John Berger,
"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

"Ten Dispatches About Endurance in Face of Walls”
(October 2004)
I
The wind got up in

the night and took our plans away

(Chinese proverb)

#everynightapoem #ofsorts

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 6d

As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers”

#earlymodern

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 6d

even the sea is quiet
no gull cries

there is a terrible lack
of flowering

MV
(Myra Vennard 1929-2022)

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 6d

Stay safe, I worry about people and animals without shelter.
#StormAmy

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 6d

Myra Vennard (1929-2022) ‘Stormriver’ and other poems
poethead.wordpress.com/2017/07/06/s...

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 6d

...earlier. Its just windy now with gusts.

Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 6d

I assume, it's wild and loud.

or maybe its just a wild windy day, anyway. I got drenched wandering to the shop for milk.

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Chris Murray @chris-murray.bsky.social · 6d

it sounds wild in Dublin.

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 7d

This list is astonishing. Individuals recording rainfall for 50, 60, 70 years. 👇All hail the reliable people!

Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 8d

The Rainfall Observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British & Irish Isles have recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Here we recognise some of the individuals who made particularly important contributions.

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The rainfall observers

Over the past three centuries, thousands of people across the British and Irish Isles have regularly recorded rainfall, often every day for decades. Their efforts allow us to reconstruct long-term tr...

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