Wolf Song

Authors

  • Mary O’Malley
  • Marina Bertani Gazola

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197801

Abstract

“Wolf Song” by Mary O’Malley. Written for “Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images”, ABEI Journal 23.2 (2021).

Author Biographies

  • Mary O’Malley

    Mary O’Malley was born in Connemara and educated at University College Galway. She lived in Lisbon for eight years and taught at the Universidade Nova there. She served several years on the council of Poetry Ireland and was on the Committee of the Cuirt International Poetry Festival for eight years. She was the author of its educational programme.  She taught on the MA programmes for Writing and Education in the Arts at NUI Galway for ten years, held the Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University in 2013, and has held Residencies in Paris, New York, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Limerick. She has been active in Environmental education for twenty years with a specific interest in the Sea and Bogland, working with a team of marine scientists and musicians. In the early 1990’s, she co-organised a Province wide schools programme, arising out of her work on the organising committee of an international Conference on demilitarisation of the Ocean, held in NUIG. She has published nine books of poetry, including Valparaiso arising out of her Residency on the national marine research ship.  Playing the Octopus and her latest book of poems, Gaudent Angeli are also published by Carcanet. She has also worked on poetry translation from Irish, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan. She is a member of Aosdana and has won a number of awards for her poetry.  She writes for RTE Radio and broadcasts her work regularly. She has been Writer-in-Residence at NUI Galway, and the University of Limerick, and has held the Chair of Irish Studies in Villanova University in Philadelphia. She lectures and teaches widely, in the U.S. and Europe, particularly in Paris and in various parts of Spain.   She is working on a collection of essays on place, and a new book of poems. She is being awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Galway University this Summer.

  • Marina Bertani Gazola

    Marina Bertani Gazola has a Master degree in Letters from the Federal University of Parana. She is a translator and works as a researcher for the project “Culture and arts in the southern  region of Rio: memory & history”, funded by FAPERJ. She has published translations of contemporary American and Irish poets and her academic interests are Irish Studies, Translation Studies and Teaching.

Imagem editada de Eavan Boland

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Published

23-05-2021

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): ABEI Journal 23.2 Special Issue Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images

Section

Poems For a Poet

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Copyright (c) 2021 Mary O’Malley; Marina Bertani Gazola

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How to Cite

O’Malley, M. (2021). Wolf Song (M. B. Gazola , Trans.). ABEI Journal, 23(2), 242-243. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197801