Michael Ray lives in West Cork. His poems have appeared in The Moth, The Shop, The Penny Dreadful, One, Southword, Magma, Numero Cinq and New Contrast. In 2012 he was a winner in the Fish International poetry competition. In 2013 he was shortlisted for a Hennessy Award.
Michael Ray
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)