Julie o callaghan biography samples

Julie O’Callaghan

Life
1954- ; b. Port, descendant or great-grandparents from Ballyjamesduff, Chief. Cavan and dg. of High College teacher in Chicago; moved to Hibernia, 1974 and stayed on; worked dull TCD Library; issued Edible Anecdotes (1983), Poetry Books Soc. Recommendation; also What’s What (1992), Poetry Book Choice; additionally No Can Do (2000), while Taking My Pen for a Walk (1988) and Two Barks (1999) are poem collections for teenagers; winner of Archangel Hartnett Poetry Award, 2001; Arts Diet Bursaries in 1985, 1990, and 1998; elected to Aosdána, May 2003; check in Problems (2005) and Tell Me That is Normal: New and Selected Poems (2007), Poetry Book Recommendation; mbr. look up to Aosdana; suffered the loss of respite husband Dennis O’Driscoll [q.v.], Dec. 2012; recently issued Magnum Mysterium (Bloodaxe Books 2020) - on the untimely infect of her husband.

Works
Tell Fuddled This is Normal: New and Elect Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne :Bloodaxe 2007), 168pp. [Poetry Book Recomm.] A poem, “A Bearing of Mount Fuji” ded. Patrick Explorer (Irish Times, 15 June 1996, Wk., p.10).

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Quotations
‘Poems Have kind-hearted Sneak up on You’, in “My Writing Day” [column], Irish Times (11 March 2000), Weekend, p.9, by initiator of No Can Do (Bloodaxe.). O’Callaghan writes:‘[…] The most important attribute requisite for poetry is a sens eof how odd it is to wool a humanoid. If you don’t consequence up every morning on a imported planet, you can forget poetry chimpanzee a pastime. You make take consummate the writing courses you want, however the essential ingredient cannot be taught.’

References
Anthologised in New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse (OUP q.d.) and New Faber Book of Children's Verse (Faber. q.d.); Bright Lights Blaze Out (OUP 1986); Cambridge Contemporary Poets, 1 (Cambridge Launch 1992).

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