Patricia Young, a Canadian writer, has received numerous awards for her writing, including the CBC Literary Prize, Arc’s Poem of the Year Award and the National Magazine Award. She has published nine collections of poetry and one of short fiction. Her most recent collection is An Autoerotic History of Swings (Sono Nis Press, 2010). Her work was published in Poetry Ireland Review in 2008.
Patricia Young
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)