In Sight of Home - Softcover

Nessa O'Mahony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907056076 ISBN 13: 9781907056079

Publisher: Salmon Poetry, 2009

Synopsis

O'Mahony was born in Dublin in 1964 and lives in Rathfarnham. She teaches creative writing at University College Dublin and the Open University, among other places, and works as a freelance writer and editor. She was appointed writer in residence at the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies at UCD in October 2008 and was writer in residence at the Poetry and Poetics Centre at the University of South Australia in May 2009. Her poetry has appeared in a number of Irish, UK, and North American periodicals and has been translated into several European languages. This is her third poetry collection. "The poetry is accessible. and the letters, real and invented, are compellingly vivid." Booklist

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About the Author

Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin and lives in Rathfarnham where she works as a freelance teacher and writer of poetry and fiction. She was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland literature bursary in 2004, 2011 and 2018, a Simba Gill Fellowship in 2005 and an artists’ bursary from South Dublin County Council in 2007. She has published four volumes of poetry, edited and co-edited anthologies and has co-edited a book of criticism on the work of Eavan Boland. She also writes crime fiction. She presents The Attic Sessions, a literary podcast, which she produces with her husband, Peter Salisbury.

Edition details

• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1907056076
• ISBN 13: 9781907056079
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196