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Lizz Murphy Lizz Murphy i(A3584 works by) (a.k.a. Liz Murphy)
Born: Established: 1950 Belfast,
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Northern Ireland,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: 1969
Heritage: Irish
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BiographyHistory

Lizz Murphy emigrated to Australia with her husband and settled in Binalong in rural New South Wales. Murphy's interests include regional, community and workplace art and using the arts to get young people excited about language.

In 2001 she contributed an overview of Irish poetry to the anthology Many Voices.

Murphy worked as the New South Wales Poetry Development Officer from March 2004 until 31 March 2007.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2014 shortlisted Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition  – A Woman’s Work
2013 shortlisted Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition The Bird Painting I Really Wanted to Paint
2011 recipient ACT Arts Grant to assist with costs of writing a chapbook of poems and linked digital and audio poems, in 2011 - $6,000

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Wear of My Face North Melbourne : Spinifex Press , 2021 23092043 2021 selected work poetry

'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.'

Source : publisher's blurb

2021 winner ACT Notable Awards Poetry Big Press
Prayer : Quick and Dirty i "Listen quick and dirty eight orange stars a vest like a", 2013 single work poetry
— Appears in: Blake Prize 2007; Rochford Street Review , April - June no. 22 2017;
2013 highly commended Blake Poetry Prize
The Architecture of Pear i "One pear is built by its words the other assembled in paint", 2000-2009 single work poetry
— Appears in: ArtsACT 2000-2009; Award Winning Australian Writing 2012 2012; (p. 278-279)
2011 joint winner Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize Rosemary Dobson Award for an Unpublished Poem by an Australian Poet with Kristen Lang, 'Goodbye Is Too Small a Word'.
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