Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan Eleni Vakalo troubling proportion and upsetting propriety

troubling proportion and upsetting propriety in the name of unfathomable propagation

the poems in Monsoon Diary attempt to make sense of the world

The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily

Here too the content is often delivered and reinforced through rich

these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation

Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan Eleni Vakalo troubling proportion and upsetting proprietyMagnum Mysterium is Irish American poet Julie OCallaghans first collection since Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (2008). Her new poems have evolved from the early monologues written in American demotic to poems of heartache on the death of her husband, the poet Dennis ODriscoll. But even in these harrowing poems she never loses her ear for the absurdities of modern life including the grieving process where she can see her husband alive