Maurice Leitch was born in County Antrim and is the author of novels, short stories, radio and television plays and documentaries. Poor Lazarus won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1969, and Silver’s City the Whitbread in 1981. He was awarded an MBE in 1999 for services to Literature. His latest novel, Seeking Mr Hare, was published in 2013.
Maurice Leitch
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)