Tom Mathews was born in Dublin where he has worked as a freelance cartoonist, writer and
critic since 1975. His poetry collection, The Owl and The Pussycat, was published by Dedalus Press in 2009 and was shortlisted for both the Rupert and Eithne Strong Award and the Seamus Heaney Centre prize.
Tom Mathews
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)