Paul Murphy

Paul Murphy was born in Belfast, 1965. He studied at the University of Warwick, gaining a BA in Film and Literature. From there he went to Queen's University Belfast to study for an MA on T.S. Eliot and Jacques Lacan. He has just finished a stint as writer-in-residence at the Albert-Ludwig Universitat, Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Wurtemburg, Germany.

His poetry, literary criticism, book reviews and travel writings have been published in journals on every English-speaking Continent. He has published a pamphlet, one previous book of poetry (In the Luxembourg Gardens, University of Salzburg Press, Austria) and a book on T.S. Eliot, T.S. Eliot’s Post-Modernist Complaint (Postpressed, Australia). He has read from his work in Paris, Cambridge, Galway and Belfast. He is at the moment writing a history of the Schwarzwald (the Black Forest, published as ‘Der Vergangenheit’ or the past) and working on many reviews of contemporary authors. He also writes philosophy and enjoys working on the interface between poetry and philosophy.

Paul Murphy

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