Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan #Chileanpoetry are the collected #Afterhours poems

are the collected #Afterhours poems alongside the re-discovered poems which inspired them and the diary entries which follow this journey

And it talks from the heart

Barry MacSweeney

These playful and irreverent poems form a journey through the complexities and contradictions of modern life

Magnum Mysterium by Julie O’Callaghan #Chileanpoetry are the collected #Afterhours poemsMagnum 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