When Julie O’Callaghan reads her poems to teenagers, the teachers stand at the classroom door to eavesdrop. The secret of her success as an acclaimed children’s writer is that – far from writing down to young readers – her poems identify totally with them. Anyone who has longed for hair with zing, hoped to persuade their parents to part with the price of a new dress or waited to the point of despair for someone to arrive will find an ally in Julie O’Callaghan’s Two Barks. Whether writing a narrative poem about the pleasures and terrors of being home alone or a short lyric about a nasty asteroid, Julie O’Callaghan’s poems are devastatingly accurate and hugely entertaining. As Matthew Sweeney wrote of her previous collection for children, Taking My Pen for a Walk (Orchard Books, 1988): ‘This is a book which will do missionary work for poetry, a book to leave out for babysitters and know they’ll read it.’ Equally, Two Barks is a book which babysitters will leave out for parents, knowing they will find it as enlightening as it is irresistible. Illustrated by Martin Fish
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Born in Chicago in 1954, Julie O'Callaghan has lived in Ireland since 1974. Her collections of poetry include Edible Anecdotes (Dolmen Press, 1983), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; What's What (Bloodaxe Books, 1991), a Poetry Book Society Choice; No Can Do (Bloodaxe Books, 2000), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; Tell Me This Is Normal: New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2008), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation; and Magnum Mysterium (Bloodaxe Books, 2020). Her books of poetry for older children include Taking My Pen for a Walk (Orchard Books, 1988), Two Barks (Bloodaxe Books, 1998) and The Book of Whispers (Faber & Faber, 2006). She has received the Michael Hartnett Award for poetry and is a member of the Irish academy of arts, Aosdána.
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