Tess Gallagher is a poet, essayist, fiction writer and playwright. Her most recent poetry collection, Dear Ghosts, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2007. Her New and Selected Poems is to be published by Graywolf in 2011. She spends parts of each year in her cottage on the Sligo-Roscommon border.
Tess Gallagher
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)