Photos : Colleague Michael Murphy Book Launch
Colleague Michael Murphy - Second Book of Poetry Launched
Former Newsreader, Michael Murphy, launched his second book of poetry 'A Chaplet of Roses' in Hodges Figgis, Dawson Street on Thursday, 19th November at 6pm.
From Left : Eileen Dunne, Emer O'Kelly, Michael Murphy , Ciana Campbell and Evelyn Cusack.
In addition to readings from Michael himself, other poems were read by Emer O'Kelly, Ciana Campbell and Eileen Dunne.
Dr. Jeannine Woods who launched the book - with Michael.
The book was launched by Dr Jeannine Woods from the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, NUI Galway, in Hodges Figgis, 56-58 Dawson Street, Dublin 2, on Thursday November 19, 2015, at 6.00pm.
In her foreword, Dr Woods says “Michael’s poetry expresses truths at once deeply personal and universal in their resonances. His poems continue to flower in the heart and mind long after we close the pages of this beautiful book”.
The subject of this powerful new collection is human nature. Drawing on his career as a broadcaster and psychoanalyst, Michael writes accessible and engaging poetry that speaks to our experience of modern life. With wit and humour, he explores themes of identity, love and language, in poems that move the heart with deep emotion, and appeal to the intellect through their wisdom.
Michael signing copies of his book in Hodges Figgis, after the launch.
Michael is a psychoanalyst, who has a practice at Sandyford, in Dublin. He is well-known as an award-winning newsreader and television producer/director with RTÉ, and latterly from his psychoanalytic residency on the Today Show. His highly acclaimed literary memoir, At Five in the Afternoon – My Battle with Male Cancer, was published in 2009, and was a number one bestseller. A sequel, The House of Pure Being, was published in 2013, and reached the top ten. The third and final part of that trilogy, Lemons and the Waning Moon, will be published in 2016.
'A Chaplet of Roses' is now available in all good bookshops ... CB