Mary Woodward has an Irish and Welsh background (South Sligo and Ceredigion). She published The White Valentine (Worple Press) in 2014 and was highly commended in the Forward Prize 2015 and the Gregory O’Donoghue competition 2016. She also writes fiction.
Mary Woodward
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)