Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan Eleni Vakalo The mother transforms into a

The mother transforms into a giant Victoria amazonica waterlily

Immanuel Mifsud

troubling proportion and upsetting propriety in the name of unfathomable propagation

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

these charged and challenging poems never shy from confrontation

Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan Eleni Vakalo The mother transforms into aMagnum 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