Michael O’Loughlin was born in 1958 in Dublin and is active as poet, screenwriter, essayist and translator. His most recent book is the poetry collection In This Life (New Island, 2011). He has been Writer Fellow in Trinity College Dublin and Writer in Residence in Galway city and county. He has translated over a hundred books from Dutch, including Hidden Weddings: Selected Poems of Gerrit Achterberg.
Michael O’Loughlin
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)