PSYCHOSILLY

BY ALAN MURPHY

Recommended in The Irish Times Book List ("Must-reads for under 12s"), UK journal The School Librarian and Buzzwords magazine online:

 

"A lot of incredible talent has emerged recently from Ireland. Alan Murphy is one of the them...quirky, highly intelligent poems...Murphy is so comfortable with words [that his poems are] nutritional brain food for the reader"

Buzzwords Magazine Online

 

"I love everything about this book of poems for young people and so wish we could see more of this type of publication, combining as it does high production values with verse and visual material which will delight and stimulate the imaginations of adults and children alike."

The School Librarian

 

"These are verses to be experienced rather than analysed - the language needs tasting on the tongue...to-hell-with-logic winsomeness."

Books for keeps

"Murphy has already established his credentials as an idiosyncratic and offbeat observer of what he generally sees as a confused and confusing world...Matching his words with his equally quirky collage illustrations, he focuses on how incomprehension can result both in zany laughter and feelings of doubt and fear. Life's unpredictability and, even more, its absurdities are nicely captured."

Irish Times Supplement, "Must-Reads for Under 12s"

"Explores big themes and ideas about the world [and is] always rhyming, playing with words and taking literal meanings to surreal lengths...the poems lend themselves to being read aloud with gusto for the enjoyment of children of all ages."

Children's Books Ireland Recommended Reading Guide 2011

“Alan Murphy has excelled himself with his new book Psychosilly, a mixture of poems and art collages…Page after page there is such a rich and wonderful engagement with words and meanings...[He] not only gives new young readers such fun but he re-imagines a world that might have lost a little sprinkle of sparkle for older readers. And it is such a visual feast, a jelly and ice cream for the eyes as well as a literary liquorice all sorts too.”

Liam Murphy, Munster Express

“The poems will make [children] think as well as giggle.”

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ISBN: 978-0-9561734-1-6

PRICE: €10.99

FORMAT: Paperback

DIMENSIONS: 180mm x 190mm

CATEGORY: Poetry for children

READERSHIP: 9+