David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta online, Zoetrope All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, The Georgia Review and A Public Space, in the Faber New Irish Writing anthology, ‘Being Various’, edited by Lucy Caldwell, in ‘The Art of the Glimpse: 100 Irish Short Stories’, edited by Sinéad Gleeson, and on BBC and RTÉ radio. His first book, ‘Darker With the Lights On’, is published by Transit Books and Carcanet Press.
David Hayden
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)