Kissing Maura O'Keeffe

Kissing Maura O'Keefe is a chapbook selection of old and new love poems by Cork-poet Gerry Murphy. Murphy has published nine collections of poetry, noted for their political and erotic charge as well as their irreverent humour.

Gerry Murphy was born in Cork in 1952. His poetry collections includethe The Humours of Nothingness (2020) Muse (2010) My Flirtation with International Socialism (2010) and End of Part One: New and Selected Poems (2006), all from Dedalus. Murphy's poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and Pocket Apocalypse, his translations of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska, appeared in 2005 from Southword Editions.