Louise C. Callaghan - Moonlight: A Full Moon

Louise C. Callaghan was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1948. She is the author of The Puzzle-Heart (1999); Remember the Birds (2005); In the Ninth House (2011) and Dreampaths of a Runaway in 2017. She is editor of an anthology of poetry called Forgotten Light: Memory Poems (A&A Farmar, 2003). Her poems have been published in journals throughout Ireland and the UK and are included in The Field Day Anthology of Irish Literature, Volumes IV & V, Voices and Poetry of Ireland. (Cork University Press) and Windharp: Poems of Ireland since 1916 (Penguin Books, 2016).  Her work is recorded in the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, UCD. Her play, Find the Lady, which is based on the life of Kate O'Brien, was commissioned by the Abbey Theatre Company (1993). She has taught creative writing in Ireland and the US. and has an M.Litt in poetry from St Andrews, Scotland (2007). Moonlight: A Full Moon is her fifth collection of poems with Salmon Poetry.