Knute Skinner lives in Clare. His most recent collection, Fifty Years: Poems 1957–2007, from Salmon Poetry (2007), contains new poems alongside work taken from thirteen previous books. His collection, The Other Shoe, won the 2004–2005 Pavement Saw Chapbook Award. A memoir, Help Me to a Getaway, was published by Salmon in March 2010. www.knuteskinner.com
Knute Skinner
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)