Michael Dooley’s poems have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Stinging Fly, and online at RTÉ Culture. He has been shortlisted for The Strokestown International Poetry Prize, The Doolin Poetry Prize, and The Cúirt New Writing Prize. He is a teacher, and lives in Limerick.
Michael Dooley
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)