Three Red Things - by Chris Murray (2013)
Three Red Things
Published 04/06/2013
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<strong>Christine Elizabeth Murray</strong><span> is an Irish poet and feminist who works to improve the visibility of women writers. She graduated from </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_Dublin" title="University College Dublin">University College Dublin<span> </span></a><span>with a degree in Art History and English Literature. She qualified as a stone cutter and has worked with the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Public_Works" title="Office of Public Works">Office of Public<span> </span></a><span>Works in Ireland. Two historic sites she has worked on are </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Castle" title="Ross Castle">Ross Castle<span> </span></a><span>and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardfert_Cathedral" title="">Ardfert<span> </span></a><span>Cathedral in County Kerry. Murray writes poetry predominantly for publication though she has done performance poetry. She founded </span><i>Poethead<span> </span></i><span>which is dedicated to women writers and is a member of </span><i>Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon</i><span>.</span><br /><strong><br />(Source: </strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Murray" target="_blank" title="Wiki" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wiki</a><strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Murray" target="_blank" title="Wiki" rel="noreferrer noopener">)</a><br /><br /><br />Three Red Things<br /></strong><br />Published 04/06/2013 <br />Smithereens Press <br /><em>Electronic chapbook - ISSUU -PDF</em> <br /><br /><br />Smithereens Press ceased publishing in 2019. The Chapbook is now uploaded to Internet Archive at <strong>Online URL</strong> <a href="https://archive.org/details/ThreeRedThingsByChristineMurrayLibre">https://archive.org/details/ThreeRedThingsByChristineMurrayLibre</a> <br /><br /><strong>PDF Version:</strong> <a href="https://ia800306.us.archive.org/5/items/ThreeRedThingsByChristineMurrayLibre/Three_Red_Things_by_Christine_Murray-libre.pdf">https://ia800306.us.archive.org/5/items/ThreeRedThingsByChristineMurrayLibre/Three_Red_Things_by_Christine_Murray-libre.pdf</a><br /><br />Series themed chapbook that seeded two later collections. This work is © Chris Murray.<br /><br />Public Domain Mark 1.0<br />Open-source<br /><dl class="metadata-definition"><dt></dt>
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Chris Murray
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A Hierarchy of Halls - by Chris Murray (2018)
A Hierarchy of Halls - by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Murray" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chris Murray</a> <br /><br /><br />Published 05/02/2018 Smithereens Press Electronic chapbook - ISSUU -PDF Public Domain Mark 1.0 Open-source Internet Archive
<strong><br />Christine Elizabeth Murray</strong> is an Irish poet and feminist who works to improve the visibility of women writers. She graduated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_College_Dublin" title="University College Dublin">University College Dublin </a>with a degree in Art History and English Literature. She qualified as a stone cutter and has worked with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Public_Works" title="Office of Public Works">Office of Public </a>Works in Ireland. Two historic sites she has worked on are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Castle" title="Ross Castle">Ross Castle </a>and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardfert_Cathedral" title="">Ardfert </a>Cathedral in County Kerry. Murray writes poetry predominantly for publication though she has done performance poetry. She founded <i>Poethead </i>which is dedicated to women writers and is a member of <i>Fired! Irish Women Poets and the Canon</i>.<br /><br /><strong>(Source: </strong><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Murray" target="_blank" title="Wiki" rel="noreferrer noopener">Wiki)</a><strong><br /><br />A Hierarchy Of Halls<br /></strong><br /><span>Published 05/02/2018</span><br /><span>Smithereens Press</span><br /><br /><em>Electronic chapbook - ISSUU -PDF</em><span></span><br /><br /><span><strong>Smithereens Press</strong> ceased publishing in 2019. The Chapbook is now uploaded to <strong>Internet Archive</strong> at </span><strong>Online URL</strong><span>: h<a href="https://archive.org/details/sp23ahierarchyofhalls/mode/2up">ttps://archive.org/details/sp23ahierarchyofhalls/mode/2up</a></span><br /><br /><strong>PDF Version:</strong><span> <a href="https://ia800108.us.archive.org/35/items/sp23ahierarchyofhalls/sp23ahierarchyofhalls.pdf">https://ia800108.us.archive.org/35/items/sp23ahierarchyofhalls/sp23ahierarchyofhalls.pdf</a><br /><br /><strong>Related Link:</strong> <br /><a href="https://ph1.omeka.net/collections/show/1">https://ph1.omeka.net/collections/show/1</a><br /><br /></span><br /><span>This work is © Chris Murray.</span><br /><span>Public Domain Mark 1.0</span><br /><span>Open-source</span><br /><dl class="metadata-definition"><dt></dt>
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<span>Text © Chris Murray</span><br /><br /><span>Art and Cover Image: "Making Den Of Sibyl Wren" © </span>Salma Ahmad Caller <br /><br />CF. <em><a href="https://ph1.omeka.net/collections/show/1">Artwork and photography associated with the Poethead Site 2008-2021</a></em>
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Rootless - by Jennifer Matthews
Rootless - by Jennifer Matthews
Upload date 28/02/2018
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Rootless - by Jennifer Matthews <br /><br />Published 28/02/2018 Smithereens Press <br />Electronic chapbook - ISSUU -PDF <br /><br />Smithereens Press ceased publishing in 2019. The Chapbook is now uploaded to Internet Archive at <strong>Online URL</strong>: <a href="https://archive.org/details/RootlessByJenniferMatthews/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/RootlessByJenniferMatthews/mode/2up</a><br /><br /><strong>PDF Version:</strong> <a href="https://ia800105.us.archive.org/17/items/RootlessByJenniferMatthews/Rootless%20by%20Jennifer%20Matthews.pdf">https://ia800105.us.archive.org/17/items/RootlessByJenniferMatthews/Rootless%20by%20Jennifer%20Matthews.pdf</a><br /><br /><br /><strong>Related Link:</strong> <a href="https://poethead.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/lifelike-and-other-poems-by-jennifer-matthews/">https://poethead.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/lifelike-and-other-poems-by-jennifer-matthews/</a><br /><br /><br />This work is © <strong>Jennifer Matthews</strong> <br /><br />Public Domain Mark 1.0 <br />Open-source
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Jennifer Matthews
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"Magnificat" (1917) by Geraldine Plunkett Dillon
"Magnificat" By Geraldine Plunkett Dillon (1891-1986) Published Dublin, Ireland <br />Published<strong> Candle Press</strong>, 1917<br /><br /><strong>Geraldine Plunkett Dillon</strong> (1891 – 1986) was born in Dublin. She published a single pamphlet of poems, <strong>Magnificat,</strong> from The Candle Press in Rathgar in 1917, which sold for sixpence. Her brother Joseph Mary was executed for his part in the 1916 rising. She was the mother of Eilís Dillon and grandmother of Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin.<br /><br />The pamphlet is published in toto on the Poethead Website at <strong>Online URL:</strong> <em><a href="https://poethead.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/magnificat-1917-by-geraldine-plunkett-dillon/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://poethead.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/magnificat-1917-by-geraldine-plunkett-dillon/</a><br /><br /></em>"Magnificat" is featured on Internet Archive at: <a href="https://archive.org/details/magnificat00pluniala" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>https://archive.org/details/magnificat00pluniala</em></a><br /><br />Details:
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MAGNIFICAT
by Geraldine Plunkett Dillon (1891 – 1986)
1 (Untitled)
While you are in Kilkenny town,
I see your grace in every tree;
Your hair is as the branches brown,
The birches have your bravery.
Your strength in mountain oaks I find,
Eagles in this have built their nest;
With supple sally twigs you bind
My willing heart unto your breast.
Cypress and cedar spreading wide
Under your peace my heart will sleep;
O rowan tree that grows beside
My pool of love, your roots drink deep.
2 June
I fill my heart with stores of memories,
Lest I should ever leave these loved shores;
Of lime trees humming with slow drones of bees,
And honey dripping sweet from sycamores.
Of how a fir tree set upon a hill,
Lifts up its seven branches to the stars;
Of the grey summer heats when all is still,
And even grasshoppers cease their little wars.
Of how a chestnut drops its great green sleeve,
Down to the grass that nestles in the sod;
Of how a blackbird in a bush at eve,
Sings to me suddenly the praise of God.
3 The North Wind
O rare North Wind whose cutting edge is keen,
Joyfully brushing up the countryside,
Tossing aloft the yellow buds and green,
A little southward eddie creeps around
When all the West is blushing like a bride,
Sweet is the southward eddie near the ground.
The heavy tide rolls in the billows blue,
Save in the purple depth where seaweed lies;
The seagulls out against the clouds are few,
But O, the sea is white among the rocks;
The whipped foam white in the North Wind flies,
High in the sky are flung the North Wind’s locks.
4 To Saint Francis
O Francis, I have listened at your feet
And tried to catch your quick humility,
I caught the meaning of your counsels sweet
And found the peace that is within your words;
I’ve loved with you the fishes of the sea,
I’ve been the little sister to the birds.
I am in fellowship with all the world
The rivers singing to me as they run,
The flowers spoke to me as they unfurled
The dumb earth sobs to me in earthquake jars;
As you were little brother to the sun,
I am the little sister of the stars.
5 Gan Ainm
Your gracious joy distils my heart, as dew
Which your great love will gather to a whole
And bind the waters to a stream anew,
To wind among the gardens of your soul;
The unthinkable sweetness of your kiss
Has made my soul a flame, and up it goes,
Finding its way among the stars in bliss
To hide itself in the eternal rose.
6 Magnificat
A fold of Heaven’s curtain swung aside
Splitting the blackness of the winter’s night,
Blown by the breath of God it opens wide;
I saw the holy ones in companies
Led by archangels armoured for the fight;
I heard the shrill eternal symphonies.
I did not thrust my sorrow-twisted face
Amongst the splendours of the heavenly town
Nor walk misshapen with the forms of grace
Girded for battle in celestial wars;
And yet, my God, an angel has come down
And crowned me with the glory of the stars.
7 Si Quis Amat
In my dream of peace,
One sound breaks silence
The sweetness of increase
As honey downward drips
Through the bars of sense
Down to my soul’s lips.
For whose joyous choice
My heart sings of it
Shouts with a loud voice
No fear or regret
Si quis amat novit
Quid haec vox clamet
[If a man loves, he will know the sound of this voice.]
8 Before Her Judge
In all my life, there happened things just three
First I was born;
Marriage came next to one who seemed like Thee
I died this morn.
My man, my babes, my life, I loved too well,
To walk Thy ways.
Must I now hate eternally in Hell
Unending days?
There is one plea beneath which I can hide,
O Beauteous One!
Your Father, Christ, forsook you; but I died
To save my son.
Magnificat is courtesy of and © Geraldine Plunkett Dillon’s great-granddaughter Isolde Carmody
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"Fourteen Poems" by Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
Doris Lessing published one poetry pamphlet "Fourteen Poems" (Scorpion Press, 1959). A small collection of poems "The Wolf People" was anthologised in "The Inpopa Anthology" (2002)
<span><strong>Doris Lessing</strong>, in full Doris May Lessing, original name Doris May Tayler, (born October 22, 1919, Kermānshāh, Persia [now Iran]—died November 17, 2013, London, England), British writer whose novels and short stories are largely concerned with people involved in the social and political upheavals of the 20th century. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007. <br /><br />(Source: <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Doris-Lessing" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Doris Lessing | British writer | Britannica</a>)<br /><br /><strong>Fourteen Poems</strong> by Doris Lessing, The Scorpion Press, Limited Print edition of "Fourteen Poems", published 1959. (Northwood, London)<br /><br />Table Of Contents </span><br /><ol><li><span>Under a Low Cold Sky</span></li>
<li><span>Older Woman to Younger Man (1)</span></li>
<li><span>Older Woman to Younger Man (2)</span></li>
<li><span>Plea for the Hated Dead Woman</span></li>
<li><span>Bars</span></li>
<li><span>Dark Girl’s Song</span></li>
<li><span>New Man</span></li>
<li><span>Night-Talk</span></li>
<li><span>Song</span></li>
<li><span>Exiled</span></li>
<li><span>Oh Cherry Trees you are too white for my heart’</span></li>
<li><span>Fable</span></li>
<li><span>In Time of Dryness</span></li>
<li><span>Jealousy</span></li>
</ol><span><br />The Scorpion Press archive is housed at the McFarlin Library, Special Collections, University Of Tulsa.<br /><br />Two poems "Fable" and "O Cherry Trees You Are Too White For My Heart" from "Fourteen Poems" are reproduced on Poethead with the permission of Jonathan Clowes Ltd, London, on behalf of Doris Lessing.<br /><br /><strong>Online UR</strong>L:<br /><em><a href="https://poethead.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/fable-and-oh-cherry-trees-you-are-too-white-for-my-heart-two-poems-by-doris-lessing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://poethead.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/fable-and-oh-cherry-trees-you-are-too-white-for-my-heart-two-poems-by-doris-lessing/</a></em><br /></span>
Doris May Lessing (1919-2013)
<br /><br /><ul><li><a href="https://libraries.utulsa.edu/mcfarlin" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.ucd.ie/specialcollections/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">UCD Special Collections</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.jonathanclowes.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jonathan Clowes, Ltd </a></li>
<li><a href="https://poethead.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/fable-and-oh-cherry-trees-you-are-too-white-for-my-heart-two-poems-by-doris-lessing/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Poethead, C. Murray</a> (Online Publication)</li>
<li><a href="http://booksbywomen.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Women Writers, Women's Books</a></li>
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The Scorpion Press, the Limited Print edition of "Fourteen Poems", published 1959. (Northwood, London)<br /><br />The Scorpion Press was a small publisher, situated in Northwood, London, active at least as early as 1959. They published a number of titles including the first three collections of Peter Porter. They ceased operations in the early 1970s. (Source: Wiki) <br /><br /><strong>Online URL:</strong> <a href="https://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-Scorpion_Press" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.encyclo.co.uk/meaning-of-Scorpion_Press </a><br /><strong>Online URL:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_Press" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorpion_Press</a><br /><br />Chris Murray (Online Publisher) <br /><br /><strong>Online URL</strong>: <a href="https://poethead.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/doris-lessings-poems/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://poethead.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/doris-lessings-poems/</a>
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Doris May Lessing (1919-2013)
"Oh Cherry Trees You Are Too White For My Heart" and "Fable", two Poems 1959 © Doris Lessing, are reprinted by kind permission of Jonathan Clowes Ltd., London, on behalf of Doris Lessing.
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