Mary O'Malley (poet)

Mary O'Malley (b. 1954 Connemara) is an Irish poet.

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.^[1] She teaches on the MA in Writing at the National University of Ireland, Galway.^[2][3]

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.^[4]

She read at the 2009 Dublin Book Festival.^[5][5]

Awards

• Hennessey Award winner in 1990
• 13th annual Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award, 2009^[1]

Works

• "Macchu Picchu, Inis Mór"; "Canvas Currach II", ASYLUM ROAD

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 ^[6]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.stthomas.edu/bulletin/news/200914/Wednesday/PoetryAward4_1_09.cfm
2. ^ http://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=538
3. ^ http://www.sc.edu/poetry/featuredpoets.shtml
4. ^ http://www.conference.campusengage.ie/site/view/100/
5. ^ ^{a b} http://www.dublinbookfestival.com/sunday.html
6. ^ http://overtheedgeliteraryevents.blogspot.com/2007/09/salmon-poetry-anthology.html

Further Reading

• Allen Randolph, Jody. "Mary O'Malley." Close to the Next Moment: Interviews from a Changing Ireland. Manchester: Carcanet, 2010.
• Gonzalez, Alexander G. (2006). Irish women writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 9780313328831. http://books.google.com/books?id=quocyNYLbLcC&pg=PA293&lpg=PA293&dq=MARY+O'MALLEY+poet&source=bl&ots=VvS-F3btzr&sig=NcVeongkuML6HLUWWVM-jxjSrgs&hl=en&ei=wiQYSvmmKMqLtge8v7TyDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#PPA293,M1. 
• McKenna, Bernard. "Such Delvings and Exhumations": The Quest for Self-Actualization in Mary O'Malley's Poetry. Contemporary Irish Women Poets, 1999, ISBN 9780313309168

External links

• Mary O'Malley, International Poetry Forum
• "Irish Writers: Mary O'Malley", The Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4
• "Prize-winning Irish poet inspired by native seacoast", Tom Crann, Minnesota Public Radio, April 17, 2009

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