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Lizz Murphy (born 1950) is an Irish-Australian poet.

Born in Belfast, Lizz Murphy settled in Wollongong on the South Coast of NSW in 1969. Interested at that time in painting, she was active in the 1970s in community arts and craft. She moved to rural NSW in 1981 and began writing poetry in the mid- to late-1980s.

Lizz Murphy was co-winner of the 2011 Rosemary Dobson Poetry Prize and winner of the 1994 Anutech Poetry Prize with some mentions in between. She was awarded the CAPO-Singapore Airlines Travel Award in 2007 to travel to Kolkata/Calcutta as part of the Australian-India Poetry Exchange (her second visit) and the ACT Creative Arts Fellow for Literature in 1998.

She has worked as a shop assistant, a regional newspaper editor, a marketing manager in publishing, a freelance publicist in publishing and the arts, in regional arts development and in poetry development. She was the inaugural NSW Poetry Development Officer with the Poets Union (2004-07). She also earns her living by publishing and performing her poetry, working on community publications, facilitating writing workshops and mentoring poets. She is interested in art & text, digital poetry and poetry as public art.

Poetry: The Indelible Stencil is a public art project instigated and coordinated by Lizz Murphy, in partnership with Southern Tablelands Arts (STARTS) and 8 Local Governments. The outcome is almost thirty small poems by ten poets fabricated as steel plates reminiscent of wool bale stencils, for installation in public areas across the Southern Tablelands and Highlands of NSW due for completion in 2012. The project also included the Poetry and Place tour to 8 libraries in 2010. Poetry: The Indelible Stencil is assisted by the Regional Arts Fund, an Australian Government initiative supporting the arts in regional and remote Australia. Website: Web http://sites.google.com/site/lizzmurphypoet Blog: lizzmurphypoet.blogspot.com

'''WORKS

Poetry

Six Hundred Dollars (PressPress 2010 RRP $11 pb)

Walk the Wildly (Picaro Press 2009 RRP $5 pb)

Stop Your Cryin (Island Press 2004 RRP $15 pb)

Two Lips Went Shopping (Spinifex Press 2000 RRP $19.95 pb)

Pearls and Bullets (Island Press 1997 $10 pb)

Do Fish Get Seasick (Polonius Press 1994 $5 pb)

Social History

The Pearly Griffin: The Story of the Old Griffin Centre (co-ed. with Sarah St Vincent Welch; ACT Department of Disability, Housing and Community Services 1997)

Anthologies

Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective (ed. Spinifex Press 1996 & 2000 RRP $24.95 pb)

Eat the Ocean (Literary Mouse Press 1997 OP)

She’s a Train and She’s Dangerous (ed. Literary Mouse Press 1994 OP)

Community/Workplace Publications

Everyone Need Cleaners, Eh! (writer and ed. Art & Working Life Committee, ACT Trades and Labour Council 1997 OP)

House at Work (project officer - writer, PEO, Parliament House Canberra, 2001)

Visual Arts (recent)

Skin - group exhibition ANCA Gallery Canberra 2010

Water Works – group exhibition Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 2006

Conversations: Five Artists; Five Writers - group exhibition Goulburn Regional Art Gallery 2005

Reviews, Poems and Features

Review of Stop Your Cryin - API

Poetica - ABC Radio National Two Lips Went Shopping

Poem - Foam:e

Three poems - website

Poem - Haiku Review

Launch speech Six Hundred Dollars- Elizabeth Masters

Article - Reading and Relishing - Australian Poetry Centre