Lizz Murphy
Lizz Murphy writes between Binalong NSW and Canberra ACT, a habit which began while commuting by bus (aeons ago). Now she commutes part-time by car still keeping her eye out for poems. She writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry often incorporating found text.
Lizz has published over a dozen books. Her eight poetry titles include: Shebird and Six Hundred Dollars (PressPress), Walk the Wildly (Picaro/Ginninderra), Stop Your Cryin (Island Press), Two Lips Went Shopping (Spinifex Press). Spinifex Press also published her best known anthology Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective. She is published in numerous anthologies and journals in Australia and overseas.
Lizz is a former Canberra Times Poetry Editor, has worked in regional arts development, arts and publishing, was once a regional newspaper editor and when she was very young, a shop assistant.
She blogs at A Poet’s Slant lizzmurphypoet.blogspot.com
Awards
2015 Aesthetica Creative Poetry Competition (UK) – Finalist
2014 Aesthetica Creative Poetry Competition (UK) – Finalist
2013 Blake Poetry Prize – Highly Commended
2011 Rosemary Dobson Poetry Prize (joint)
2008 Max Harris Poetry Prize — APPC Committee Selection
2006 CAPO (Canberra Arts Patrons Organization)-Singapore Airlines Travel Award (Calcutta)
2005 artsACT Travel Grant (Calcutta)
1998 ACT Creative Arts Fellowship (Literature)
1994 Anutech Poetry Prize
Book Awards
Two Lips Went Shopping: 1998 ACT Creative Arts Fellowship for development
Older Titles
Lizz Murphy
The sun is our closest star just average a middle-aged dwarf past its prime but still a few billion years to go and fierce is its heat Its domains: interior surface atmospheres inner corona outer corona Did someone say Corona?
The Wear of My Face is an assemblage of passing lives and landscapes, fractured worlds and realities. There is splintered text and image, memory and dream, newscast and conversation. Women wicker first light, old men make things that glow, poets are standing stones, frontlines merge with tourist lines. Lizz Murphy weaves these elements into the strangeness of suburbia, the intensity of waiting rooms, bush stillness, and hopes for a leap of faith as at times she leaves a poem as fragmented as a hectic day or a bombed street. What may sometimes seem like misdemeanours of the mind, to Lizz they are simply the distractions and disturbances of daily life somewhere. There is a rehomed greyhound, a breezy scientist, ancient malleefowl, beige union reps and people in all their conundrums. You might travel on a seagull’s wing or wing through the aerosphere.
SEPTEMBER 2021 | ISBN 9781925950342 | Paperback | 140 x 216mm | 112 pages