Mary O’Malley taught the MA programmes for Writing and Education in the Arts at NUI Galway for ten years, held the Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2013, and has held various international and national residencies. She has been active in Environmental education for twenty years with a specific interest in the Sea and Bogland. She has published seven books of poetry, the most recent ‘Valparaiso’ arising out of her Residency on the national marine research ship. ‘Playing The Octopus’ is her latest book of poems, published in 2017 by Carcanet.
Mary O’Malley
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)