Mary O'Malley (poet)
Encyclopedia
Life
Mary O’Malley was educated at University College, Galway. She spent many years living in Portugal before returning to Ireland in the late 1980s, and beginning a poetry career in 1990.She lives near the village of Moycullen
Moycullen
Moycullen Moycullen Moycullen (official name: Maigh Cuilinn, Plain of Holly, or Plain of Cullen (a local giant) is a suburban village in County Galway, Ireland, about 10 km (7 mi) north west of Galway city. It is located near Lough Corrib, on the N59 road to Oughterard and Clifden in...
. She teaches on the MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway
National University of Ireland, Galway
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Her work has been published in Krino, Poetry Ireland, The Seneca Review, Atlanta Review, Da Braake Honde, Lictungen, The Lifelines Anthology and the Review of Irish American Studies.
She read at the 2009 Dublin Book Festival.
Works
Books
- A Consideration of Silk, Salmon Poetry Galway, 1990
- Where the Rocks Float, Salmon, Galway, 1993
- The Knife in the Wave, Salmon Co.Clare, 1997
- Asylum Road, Salmon Publishing, 2001
- The Boning Hall (New & Selected), Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2002
- A Perfect V, Carcanet Press, Manchester, 2006.
Anthology
- Three Irish Poets, Carcanet Press Ltd. 2003 ISBN 9781857546835
- SALMON: A Journey in Poetry 1981-2007, edited by Jessie Lendennie
Further Reading
- Allen Randolph, Jody. "Mary O'Malley." Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland. Manchester: Carcanet, 2010.
- McKenna, Bernard. "Such Delvings and Exhumations": The Quest for Self-Actualization in Mary O'Malley's Poetry. Contemporary Irish Women Poets, 1999, ISBN 9780313309168