Steve Ely’s collections Oswald’s Book of Hours (2013) andEnglaland (2015) are published by Smokestack Books. His pamphlet Werewolf has just been published by Calder Valley Poetry. His biographical work Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2015. He lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Huddersfield where he is Director of the newly formed Ted Hughes Network.
Steve Ely
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)