Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives in Rathfarnham where she works as a freelance teacher and writer. She has published three books: her first collection, Bar Talk, appeared in 1999; her second, Trapping a Ghost, was published in 2005; a verse novel, In Sight of Home, was published in 2009. A third collection, Her Father’s Daughter, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry.
Nessa O’Mahony
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)