Gerry Murphy was born in Cork City in 1952. His collections are A Small Fat Boy Walking Backwards (Cork, Commons Press, 1988, Three Spires Press, 1992); Rio de la Plata and All That (Dublin, Dedalus, 1993); The Empy Quarter (Dedalus, 1995); Extracts from the Lost Log Book of Christopher Columbus (Dedalus, 1999); Torso of an Ex-Girlfriend (Dedalus, 2002): and End of Part One, New and Selected Poems (Dedalus, 2006)
He translation of the Polish poet Katarzyna Borun-Jagodzinska was published as Pocket Apocalypse (Cork, Southword Editions, 2005).He lives in Cork City.