Timothy Murphy is a North Dakota farmer, venture capitalist and poet. His collection
with an introduction by Richard Wilbur, recently appeared from
Storyline Press.
He is coauthor, with Alan Sullivan, of a new translation
of Beowulf, which was recently published as part of the Longmans Anthology of British Literature
On this site:
- The Talisman
Greenland was one of many lands settled by the Vikings: but they were
displaced by the Inuit during the Middle Ages. This poem imagines a conversation
between a later explorer and an Inuit hunter.
- The Wanderer
The ancient Northern world and its mythology ... attraction? Or would you really
want to live in it?