The poet Mary O’Malley will join us at the ‘Women and the Sea’ symposium, where she will present a paper on the poetry and song of the sea, entitled ‘When the seas were lavish’, and she will also read from her work at the symposium dinner.
Mary has published seven collections of poetry to date, and is probably best known for her most recent collection, Valparaiso (Carcanet, 2012), which began on a voyage on the Irish marine research vessel, the Celtic Explorer, and resonates with the sound of the sea.