Simon Ó Faoláin was born in Dublin and raised in West Kerry. His poetry has been published in various journals including Feasta, Comhar, An Guth, Cyphers, Irish Pages and Poetry Ireland Review. He won the Colm Cille Prize in the years 2008 and 2010. His first collection, Anam Mhadra (Coiscéim 2008), won the Glen Dimplex Irish Award and the Eithne and Rupert Strong Award.
Simon Ó Faoláin
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)