Ciaran Berry grew up in Connemara and Donegal. He has lived in three of the five boroughs of New York. His first book, The Sphere of Birds, was published by The Gallery Press in 2008 and won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. He is currently working on his second full-length volume, The Dead Zoo.
Ciaran Berry
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)