Catherine Phil MacCarthy’s most recent collection Suntrap, was published by Blackstaff Press (2007). Her next, Invisible Threshold, is due for publication. She won the Fish International Poetry Prize 2010 and is a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review. Recent poems have appeared in New Hibernia Review (Fall, 2010) and Opening Eyes (Cambridge University Press, 2009).
Catherine Phil MacCarthy
the wolf of Ossory (OR: Of the prodigies of our times, and first of a wolf which conversed with a priest)
A letter from Rebecca Cartello in Scarborough, England, to her sister Carla in Longreach, Queensland, 15 December 1955
shadowgraph 73: no longer magic (poetry detected in maria goeppert-mayer’s nobel physics lecture, 1963)