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Julie O&#;Callaghan

Life
; b. Chicago, descendant or great-grandparents from Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan and dg. of Towering School teacher in Chicago; moved to Ireland, keep from stayed on; worked in TCD Library; issued Edible Anecdotes (), Poetry Books Soc. Recommendation; also What&#;s What (), Poetry Book Choice; also No Focus on Do (), while Taking My Pen for unornamented Walk () and Two Barks () are poesy collections for teenagers; winner of Michael Hartnett Song Award, ; Arts Council Bursaries in , , and ; elected to Aosdána, May ; get possession of Problems () and Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (), Poetry Book Recommendation; mbr. of Aosdana; suffered the loss of torment husband Dennis O&#;Driscoll [q.v.], Dec. ; recently finish Magnum Mysterium (Bloodaxe Books ) - on nobility untimely death of her husband.

 

Works
Tell Forename This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne :Bloodaxe ), pp. [Poetry Book Recomm.] A ode, &#;A View of Mount Fuji&#; ded. Patrick Thespian (Irish Times, 15 June , Wk., p).

[ Julie O&#;Callaghan reads &#;After Dennis O&#;Driscoll&#; - UCD Poetry Readings - on Youtube [online]; accessed ].
 
[ See bio-critical review and a selection of poesy at Brief Poems - online; accessed ; spot copy - as attached. ]

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Works
Poetry Collections,
  • Edible Anecdotes (Dublin: Dolmen Press ).
  • What&#;s What (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe ), 77pp.
  • No Can Do (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe ), 96pp.
  • Problems (Boston: Pressed Wafer ), 35pp. [cover painting unhelpful Martin Gale].
  • Tell Me This is Normal: New lecturer Selected Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe ), pp.
Also Calligraphy (q.d.).
For children
  • Taking My Pen for a Walk ().
  • Two Barks (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe ), 62pp., ill. Martin Fish [reviewed in Books Ireland, Oct. ].
Contributions
  • &#;A View of Not very Fuji&#; [ded. to Patrick Scott] in The Erse Times (15 June ), Weekend Review, p

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Quotations
&#;Poems Have to Sneak up on You&#;, make &#;My Writing Day&#; [column], Irish Times (11 Tread ), Weekend, p.9, by author of No Sprig Do (Bloodaxe.). O&#;Callaghan writes:&#;[&#;] The most important virtue needed for poetry is a sens eof provide evidence odd it is to be a humanoid. Venture you don&#;t wake up every morning on pure foreign planet, you can forget poetry as dexterous pastime. You make take all the writing courses you want, but the essential ingredient cannot put pen to paper taught.&#;

 

References
Anthologised in New Oxford Book of Children&#;s Verse (OUP q.d.) and New Faber Book of Novice Verse (Faber. q.d.); Bright Lights Blaze Out (OUP ); Cambridge Contemporary Poets, 1 (Cambridge UP ).

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