[spectre] A Northern Ireland poet

[Séamas Cain]

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ALONE IN THE BACK CAFÉ, a new chapbook by Paul Murphy, has been
published by Survivors' Poetry in London, England.  The chapbook was
funded and sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

Paul Murphy was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1965.  He studied
at the University of Warwick, gaining a B.A. in Film and Literature.
>From there he went to Queen’s University in Belfast to study for an
M.A. on T.S.Eliot and the French philosopher Jacques Lacan.  Murphy
has been writer-in-residence at the Albert-Ludwig Universitat,
Freiburg im Breisgau, in Baden-Wurtemburg, in Germany.  He also writes
philosophy and enjoys working on the interface between poetry and
philosophy.

Paul Murphy's previous book, IN THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS, was published
by the University of Salzburg Press, in Salzburg, Austria.  Also,
Murphy's book T.S. ELIOT'S POSTMODERNIST COMPLAINT was published by
Postpressed in Australia (www.postpressed.com.au).  Paul Murphy has
read from his work in Paris, Cambridge, Galway and Belfast.  He is at
the moment writing an oral history of the Black Forest.

The cost of Paul Murphy's ALONE IN THE BACK CAFÉ is £4.00 (or $8.00)
and may be ordered from Survivors' Poetry at

http://survivorspoetry.com/SP_Shop/index.php?productID=141

... or directly by postal mail to

Survivors’ Poetry,
Studio 11, Bickerton House,
25-27 Bickerton Road,
Archway,
London, England,
N19 5JT

Survivors’ Poetry, a British non-profit established in 1991, promotes
the writing of survivors of traumatic distress.  Survivors' Poetry is
in a unique position to act on its vision of a society in which
survivors can work towards emotional and mental stability through the
discipline and truth to self that is a prerequisite for the
imaginative expression in language of traumatic experiences.
Survivors’ Poetry actively supports and promotes the sheer linguistic
talent that many survivors bring to their insight into their own
condition and that of others.

Respectfully,

Séamas Cain
http://alazanto.org/seamascain
http://seamascain.writernetwork.com
http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain

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