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Life
1942- ; b. Co. Leitrim, and raised on an ‘organic’ farm; winner of Leitrim Guardian Literary Award; member of Rathmines Writers’ Group; contribs. to Books Ireland and other magazines incl. poems in Studies: An Irish Quarterly; issued Perfume of the Soil (1999), and The Road to Gowel (2001).
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Works
Perfume of the Soil (Dublin: An Teach Ban 1999), 60pp.; The Road to Gowel (Swan Press 2001), 62pp. [autobiog. and poetry]; Mary Guckian, Walking on Snow (Swan Press 2010), 60pp.
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Quotations
“Dripping Rainpipe”: ‘In the garden on this hot day / the house appears silent / while occupants work / or take a well earned holiday. // A dripping drainpipe / gives a cool feel / to summer sun shining / through tall trees. / Under the leafy shade / I sit on roots / that have kept the garden / dry for over a century. // Traffic shunts outside / but peace reigns / over this patch of space / between avenue and square, / cutting me off from days / of monotony at cluttered / desks and typing pools.’ (In Studies: An Irish Quarterly, Summer 2003.)
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