Patrick Deeley’s poems have appeared in many journals here and abroad over the past forty years and been widely anthologised. ‘Groundswell: New and Selected Poems’, is the latest of his six collections with Dedalus Press. He is also a children’s author, and his memoir ‘The Hurley Maker’s Son’ appeared recently from Transworld Ireland.
Patrick Deeley
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)