Gerrymandering your head
There were lawyers and ex-prisoners, health professionals and tenured professors, out-of-work actors and highly-strung trade union officials, as well as a good scattering of the best poets; all admirers of this extraordinary juggler of conflicts.
Indisputably the doyen of the post-Galvin Cork generations, Murphy is a thrilling and provocative master of poetic monologue and social commentary. His habit is to be elliptical in politics, to insert a political jibe or universal truth as adroitly as an assassin’s knife. The victim, the reader, is usually falling while the poet has left the building:
