Lizz Murphy
Lizz Murphy’s latest book Bitumen Psalms (Flying Islands Books) is a collection of micro poems mostly about place and nature. She lives in Binalong NSW.
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Lizz Murphy
Lizz Murphy was born in Belfast but lives in Binalong NSW in the Capital Region.
Through the title sequence of micro and haiku-ish poems in Bitumen Psalms (Flying Islands Books, 2025) you follow the Hume Highway from the Yass region where she lives, all the way to Wollongong on the South Coast. Lizz often writes about place and belonging and in this sequence, she is acutely aware of her unbelonging however many times she passes through. In Bitumen Psalms you also visit hospitals, have fun with her love of objects and glimpse her own patch through her Tai Chi practice, her other passion. Bitumen Psalms is her fifteenth book and tenth poetry title.
The Wear of My Face (Spinifex Press) won the ACT Writers’ ACT Notable Award for Poetry (Big Press) 2021. Spinifex Press also published Two Lips Went Shopping and her popular international anthology Wee Girls: Women Writing from an Irish Perspective. Other titles include: Shebird and Six Hundred Dollars (PressPress), Walk the Wildly (Picaro/Ginninderra). Lizz writes in a variety of styles from prose poetry to micro poetry, often incorporating found text.
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