A Life, Elsewhere by Marie Naughton Michael Murphy Memorial Prize ” In the quality of

” In the quality of his attention

gracious renaissance in California

such as Anne Bradstreet

ruthlessly and meticulously: “the leaves were turning/ and the trees were lifted from their drab

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

A Life, Elsewhere by Marie Naughton Michael Murphy Memorial Prize ” In the quality ofMarie 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