Lizz Murphy writes poetry of people and place. Lizz writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry, often incorporating found text. Lizz has published 15 books; Bitumen Psalms is her tenth poetry title. Her previous collection The Wear of my Face (Spinifex Press) won the ACT Notable Award for Poetry (Big Press) 2021. Originally from Belfast, Lizz has lived in Binalong, rural NSW, for a long time.
About The Wear of my Face (Spinifex Press 2021)
Murphy’s eye for a truthful, pungent image is as strong as ever, and her gentle humour thankfully survives these strange times.
Read more in The Canberra Times.
— Penelope Wayland, The Canberra Times
From first poem to last, she invites us on a journey of realisation where we see fragments of a world that needs to be nurtured.
Read the full review in VerityLa.
— Hazel Hall, VerityLa, edited by Robyn Cadwallader
Poet Lizz Murphy’s latest volume The Wear of My Face is a literary manifestation of the photographer’s capacity to quietly observe – everything from the banal to the exalted is the stuff of her poetry. She writes so beautifully it makes me ache.
Read the full review in This is Canberra.
— Barbie Robinson, This is Canberra
The poems navigate life as it is lived, remembered or reported with breath-taking rhythm. Words dance, tumble, somersault and back-flip with exuberance, candour and humour.
— Dominique Hecq Rabbit 35 — Architecture
