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Word Jam #12
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Category Archives: Poetry
Siblings
In Brigantia Out Now
I’m very pleased to announce that my second poetry collection, In Brigantia, is out now.
‘Andrew James Murray’s second collection invites you to Brigantia, territory of Celtic tribe the Brigantes.
It is a Brigantia of both geography and imagination, where Queen Cartimandua rubs shoulders with screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, and Tom Cruise is proselytising upon the streets of Manchester.’
For readers in the UK it is available here:
For readers in the US you can get it here:
Coming Soon
from my poetry blog.
from In Brigantia
from my poetry blog
This is the opening page, of the opening poem, from which my forthcoming poetry collection takes its name.
from In Brigantia Boathouse She is painted blue and proud shining bright in natural fires; igniting dawns Sitting by the river, rounded aesthetics rolling down a verdigris valley herons rising in glacial drifts over wooden hives Coins, unearthed in soil Roman — no hoard, breathing once more beneath the honeyed son, placed upon her lintels for luck ©AndrewJamesMurray
Cover Reveal: In Brigantia
This is the cover, in full, of my second poetry collection, In Brigantia, due to be published soon.
It shows both the back and front cover. The spine of the book will run through the middle of the horse’s head, with half of the face appearing on each side.
I wanted this image as Cartimandua, queen of the Brigantes, translates as ‘sleek pony’.
Horse, pony, it’s close enough 😃
Berlin
from my poetry blog
Berlin
Hanging on the telephone
in a hazy funk.
Ice in a glass.
The words
shape-shifting silver bream,
occasionally
catching the light.
The ice shifts,
tying me down,
caught on a line
encumbered, turbid.
Tasting Berlin: Berlin,
diluted,
hanging on the telephone
in a hazy funk.
©AndrewJamesMurray
