_______________ ALONE IN THE BACK CAFÉ, a new chapbook by Paul Murphy, has been published by Survivors' Poetry in London, England. The chapbook was funded and sponsored by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. Paul Murphy was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1965. He studied at the University of Warwick, gaining a B.A. in Film and Literature. From there he went to Queen’s University in Belfast to study for an M.A. on T.S.Eliot and the French philosopher Jacques Lacan. Murphy has been writer-in-residence at the Albert-Ludwig Universitat, Freiburg im Breisgau, in Baden-Wurtemburg, in Germany. He also writes philosophy and enjoys working on the interface between poetry and philosophy. Paul Murphy's previous book, IN THE LUXEMBOURG GARDENS, was published by the University of Salzburg Press, in Salzburg, Austria. Also, Murphy's book T.S. ELIOT'S POSTMODERNIST COMPLAINT was published by Postpressed in Australia (www.postpressed.com.au). Paul Murphy has read from his work in Paris, Cambridge, Galway and Belfast. He is at the moment writing an oral history of the Black Forest. The cost of Paul Murphy's ALONE IN THE BACK CAFÉ is £4.00 (or $8.00) and may be ordered from Survivors' Poetry at http://survivorspoetry.com/SP_Shop/index.php?productID=141 ... or directly by postal mail to Survivors’ Poetry, Studio 11, Bickerton House, 25-27 Bickerton Road, Archway, London, England, N19 5JT Survivors’ Poetry, a British non-profit established in 1991, promotes the writing of survivors of traumatic distress. Survivors' Poetry is in a unique position to act on its vision of a society in which survivors can work towards emotional and mental stability through the discipline and truth to self that is a prerequisite for the imaginative expression in language of traumatic experiences. Survivors’ Poetry actively supports and promotes the sheer linguistic talent that many survivors bring to their insight into their own condition and that of others. Respectfully, Séamas Cain http://alazanto.org/seamascain http://seamascain.writernetwork.com http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain _______________