Peggy O’Brien is the author of two collections of poems, ‘Sudden Thaw’ and ‘Frog Spotting’. She spent twenty years teaching at Trinity College Dublin and has taught for the same length of time at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Peggy O’Brien
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)
How a Magical Rambler named Margaret saved me from the funeral of everything and prepared me for the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2012