Excerpt from ‘Returning to Ithaca’ ‘Spoken, softly in The People’s Park Where archipelagos of green divided By paths like streams The member for Parliament Spring-Rice on his plinth Pebbles where his eyes used to be’ – Teri Murray Photographs by Natalie Woociker:
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Teri Murray on Lord Edward Street
Excerpt from ‘Isis on Edward Street’ ‘On Edward Street hieroglyphs of faded memories scoured by time and rain hunkered at the base of a Rosetta Stone beside the barracks wall Yet May has come again and the year has turned twice the eye of Horus is squinting sunlight through the leaves of a…
Teri Murray on Newenham Street
The House In Newenham Street I have come to this house along the Slí Dála the ancient route from Dublin to the west Brought all my confusion mania and suffering and placed it on the black mantle-piece where dust gathers taking the hard edge off the pain A woman lived here once…
Teri Murray on Thomond Bridge
The Cowboy Of The Western World He rides the range at Thomond Bridge tracking trampled hooves smeared by heavy plod of wellies ragged tyre threads Branded on rim of Stenson’s brim random ropes of yahoos and sneers bounce off a tarnished silver star a pitchfork’s rusted spears Lassoed on saddle bags a…