Yvonne Cullen works as a creative writing teacher. Her first poetry collection, Invitation to the Air, won the American Ireland Fund Award in 1997 and was published by Italics press in 1998. Yvonne’s poems appear in 2004’s New Irish Poets from Bloodaxe Books, among other anthologies. Showtown, her non-fiction account of a showpeoples’ caravan park in Dublin, and of the twentieth century world of Ireland’s travelling shows, will appear at the end of 2012.
Yvonne Cullen
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)
How a Magical Rambler named Margaret saved me from the funeral of everything and prepared me for the Cork Spring Poetry Festival 2012