1989   84 pages
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"Reading, one enters an exotic world…. Murphy's writing renders it with vivid clarity, and agile nuances of tone…."  Andrew Waterman, PN Review

1989   84 pages
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"[A] taste does not do justice to this mounting pleasures, no pun intended, of this handsomely produced book." David Gancheroff, The Jerusalem Post

2001  216 pages 
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Shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize in Poetry, 2001

"Where should one begin to impress the importance of Murphy for anglophone poetry in general? ... With the publication of this book the time has come to instate Richard Murphy as one of the most important Irish poets of the last century." Sewanee Review

2001   216 pages
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Shortlisted for the Irish Times Literature Prize in Poetry, 2001

"... [He has] a Yeats-like mastery over theme and poetic form as the way and the means for transforming personal experience into 'the artifice of eternity.'... Murphy's poems register with a cumulative weight and density approaching the monolithic. This publication of his Collected Poems begins to give this poet long-deserved recognition." Boston Review

1985   190 pages
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First edition, rare and collectible

"A masterly production by any standard, The Price of Stone is a major event in Anglo-Irish poetry, one whose significance extends well beyond this island.... A connoisseur in selecting verbal materials, a craftsman in assembling, Murphy proves himself to be an accomplished poetic architect as well." Joseph Sendry, Irish University Review

2002   69 pages
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"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's new collection of poems, The Girl who Married the Reindeer, brings together poems so elegant and difficult, rich and haunting, that this slim volume stands as both her finest achievement to date and a landmark in contemporary poetry." Helen Emmitt, Irish Literary Supplement

2002   69 pages
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"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's best work (of which this collection is unquestionably part) spins ... elements in a liminal landscape between this world and another, far more marvelous one." Jenny Ludwig, Boston Review

1995   50 pages
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"It's the quiet confidence of her voice, its modesty, its convinced seriousness and toughness, its thoughtful discretion and its refusal of easy options that I especially like, as well as the kind of hard but at the same time (and in every sense) careful life in which she bathes her sense... In volume after slim volume (she is the most exacting pruner of her own work, or she has the patience to wait for the poem that's right) she has accumulated a body of exquisite and substantial work that places her among the most accomplished poets now writing in, or out of, Ireland." Eamon Grennan, Poetry Ireland Review

1995   50 pages
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"It's the quiet confidence of her voice, its modesty, its convinced seriousness and toughness, its thoughtful discretion and its refusal of easy options that I especially like, as well as the kind of hard but at the same time (and in every sense) careful life in which she bathes her sense... In volume after slim volume (she is the most exacting pruner of her own work, or she has the patience to wait for the poem that's right) she has accumulated a body of exquisite and substantial work that places her among the most accomplished poets now writing in, or out of, Ireland." Eamon Grennan, Poetry Ireland Review

1991   64 pages
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"It is fitting that Mary Magdalene--who has been seen as whore, apostle, love, and priestess--be the patron saint of this book.  Ni Chuilleanain's eccentric poems uncover hidden dramas in many guises, and she continually holds us captive by her luminous voice." Molly Bendall, Denver Quarterly