Kathy D’Arcy is a Cork poet and IRC doctoral student in Creative Writing in UCC, where she teaches with the Women’s Studies department. She has previously worked as a doctor and with homeless young people. Her play ‘This is My Constitution’ was performed at a Dáil Eireann briefing during the constitutional convention on gender. She is involved in the Pro-Choice campaign. Poetry collections Encounter (Lapwing), and The Wild Pupil (Bradshaw). www.kathydarcy.com
Kathy D’Arcy
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)