Julie OCallaghan
Life 1954- ; b. Chicago; moved to Ireland, 1974; issued Edible Anecdotes (1983), Poetry Books Soc. Recommendation; also Whats What (1992), Poetry Book Choice; also No Can Do (2000), while Taking My Pen for a Walk (1988) and Two Barks (1999) are poetry collections for teenagers; winner of Michael Hartnett Poetry Award, 2001; Arts Council Bursaries in 1985, 1990, and 1998; elected to Aosdána, May 2003; issued Problems (2005) and Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (2007), Poetry Book Recommendation; suffered the loss of her husband Dennis ODriscoll [q.v.],
Dec. 2012.
[ Julie OCallaghan reads After
Dennis ODriscoll - UCD Poetry Readings - on Youtube [online]; accessed 25.10.2020 ]. |
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Works
Poetry Collections, |
- Edible Anecdotes (Dublin: Dolmen Press 1983).
- Whats What (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1991), 77pp.
- No Can Do (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 2000), 96pp.
- Problems (Boston: Pressed Wafer 2005), 35pp. [cover painting by Martin Gale].
- Tell Me This is Normal: New and Selected Poems (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 2007), 168pp.
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Also Calligraphy (q.d.). |
For children |
- Taking My Pen for a Walk (1988).
- Two Barks (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Bloodaxe 1998), 62pp., ill. Martin Fish [reviewed in Books Ireland, Oct. 1999].
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Contributions |
- A View of Mount Fuji [ded. to Patrick Scott] in The Irish Times (15 June 1996), Weekend Review, p.10.
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Quotations Poems Have to Sneak up on You, in My Writing Day [column], Irish Times (11 March 2000), Weekend, p.9, by author of No Can Do (Bloodaxe.). OCallaghan writes:[
] The most important attribute needed for poetry is a sens eof how odd it is to be a humanoid. If you dont wake up every morning on a foreign planet, you can forget poetry as a pastime. You make take all the writing courses you want, but the essential ingredient cannot be taught.
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References Anthologised in New Oxford Book of Childrens 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 UP 1992).
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