Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan #Chileanpoetry perhaps someone from the Department

perhaps someone from the Department of Social Services

As a child in Northern Ireland

Written from an intimate knowledge of the countryside of the Calder Valley

at the back of our heads

Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan #Chileanpoetry perhaps someone from the DepartmentMagnum 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