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Radacach! Mná agus Réabhlóid na hÉireann
Softcover, stapled, 64 pp, B5, spot colour, limited edition.
Designed by Shauna Buckley.
December 2023
Available to purchase here fromThe Library Project, here from An Siopa Leabhar, and at Books Upstairs. The book is digitised here at MNÁ100.ie
Radical! Women and the Irish Revolution
Softcover, stapled, 64 pp, B5, spot colour, limited edition.
Designed by Shauna Buckley.
July 2022
Available to purchase here fromThe Library Project, and also at Books Upstairs. The book in its entirety is digitised in the permanent collection of the National Library of Ireland here (Call No: A36252).
“In an impressive first collection, what strikes me most about Julie Morrissy is how few writers she reminds me of; in her weaving of Irish and American poetic traditions, she has found a singular voice and style.”—India Harris, review in Poetry Ireland Review #130
“Slightly more avant-garde but always really engaging, witty, wry work. I don’t think anybody else is writing like Julie [Morrissy] at the moment.”—Jessica Traynor, “Chapter & Verse: The Rise of Irish Female Poets”, The Gloss Magazine
“If Morrissy has a clear sense of ‘where I’m from’, in relation to other kinds of poetry, the most surprising and enjoyable aspect of her work is the deliberateness with which she stakes out a poetics of her own, with a mobile intelligence and wit which is not just a reaction to other voices.”
—John McAuliffe, poet and reviewer for the Irish Times
Where, the Mile End (Book*hug & tall-lighthouse, 2019) launched in Dublin, Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto, Boston and Miami in February/March 2019. European readers can order here from tall-lighthouse. North American readers can order from Book*hug.
PAMPHLETS & CHAPBOOKS
Performances in All Directions (Pizza, Poetry, Pub 2020) is a collection of field notes, images, poetry, and text from Julie Morrissy, and designed by Emma Conway.
“The spare images and field notes which document Morrissy’s trip to her grandmother’s house beside a reservoir, hidden behind a motorway are particularly moving, more than a sum of their parts.”—Martina Evans,The Irish Times, March 2021
Transcription Factor is a limited edition pamphlet published by NO Press (Canada, 2019).
“The following four poems were written collaboratively by Gregory Betts, Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, Christodoulos Makris, and Julie Morrissy in ekphrastic response to Barry O’Halpin’s original musical composition “Hox” for the Text/Sound/Performance conference at University College Dublin in April 2019…Our individual voices became both nature and nurture as we worked with [the poems] we were given and gave forth to be worked on. There, in fact, 16 poems in the entire collaboration, stemming from four poems, one by each of us edited four ways by all, but these poems here are the final (or, rather, current) evolution of the texts…”
I Am Where (Eyewear 2015) is a debut pamphlet of poetry.
"Rathmines is a lost country/in the archipelago between the good times and the bad, and so it is for this Irish poet who freely interchanges time and space, at ease with impermanence, notating herself in the act of living, making of her non-attachments a challenge to the idea of importance, a collapsing of the categories, a new kind of happiness.
—Harry Clifton, Ireland Professor of Poetry 2011-2014
"The precision of Julie Morrissy’s writing sets her work apart from many other debut pamphlets. This compulsion for accuracy comes through in poems like ‘Canada Life,’ reminiscent of Elizabeth Bishop who often qualified her statements to get to the core of honest expression..."
—James O'Leary, Review in Sabotage Reviews