Seán Lysaght is the author of six volumes of poems, including ‘Scarecrow’ (1998), ‘The Mouth of a River’ (2007) and ‘Carnival Masks’ (2014) from Gallery Press. He has also written prose about wildlife and landscapes: ‘Eagle Country’ (2018) and ‘Wild Nephin’ (2020). His ‘Selected Poems’ appeared from Gallery in 2010. He lives in Westport, County Mayo.
Seán Lysaght
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)