A Life, Elsewhere by Marie Naughton Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the second with the

and the second with the topography and the critical antecedents of the poem

gracious renaissance in California

Most of section two moves back in time and uncovers earlier locations and subjects

” In the quality of his attention

bloody-minded and bloody brilliant people

A Life, Elsewhere by Marie Naughton Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and the second with theMarie Naughton is an astute and eclectic storyteller: her poems put us inside the head of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell whose discovery of radio pulsars in the 60s translated as a Nobel Prize in Physics for her male supervisor; of high wire artist Philippe Petit as he takes his first step on a line between the Twin Towers; and a lad whose tragic end hinges on a split second decision in his morning journey to work. Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst