Ron Butlin is an international prize-winning novelist and a former Edinburgh Makar/Poet Laureate. His most recent novel is Ghost Moon (Salt, 2014). 2015 will see
the publication of his new collection Scotland’s Magic (Polygon), and his first book of poetry for children, Here Come the Trolls! (Polygon).
Ron Butlin
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)