My Life as a Stalinist

A selection of affecting, personal poems by the Irish poet Gerry Murphy, centred around family, not without his usual iconoclastic 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.