Elaine Gaston is from the north coast of Ireland. Her first collection ‘The Lie of the Land’ was published in 2015 when she received an ACE award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. She was previously Highly Commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Award and in the National Poetry Competition, UK.She lectures at Ulster University.
Elaine Gaston
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)