Phillip Crymble was born in Belfast in 1967, lived in Zambia for two years, then returned to Ireland briefly before emigrating to Canada with his family in 1978. He holds two Bachelor’s degrees, one in English Literature from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario), the other
in Creative Writing from York University (Toronto). He teaches as a Lecturer in English at the University of Michigan. His poems have appeared most recently in The Alembic (USA), Poetry Scotland, Coppertales (Australia), The Fiddlehead (Canada) and Cuirt Annual 2004.
Phillip Crymble
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)