No End to the Wonder by Margaret Galvin

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Margaret Galvin, born in Cahir Co. Tipperary in 1959, has spent her adult life in Wexford Town. She returns again and again in her writing to the ‘people, places and events’ that shaped her in South Tipperary.

She has worked with Wexford Library Service, as Editor of ‘Ireland’s Own’ and in disability support. A passionate advocate of life-long learning, she holds a degree and a Masters in Social Care.  Under the Artist in the Community scheme funded through Wexford County Council’s Arts Office, she facilitates creative writing workshops in a number of supported environments, in cancer care, enduring mental illness, for Family Carers and in community education.

In collaboration with fellow Wexford writers, she has read her work in various venues to mark National Poetry Day, Bealtaine and Culture Night. She has co-facilitated the ‘Songlines’ project in elder care with writer Billy Roche and musician Peter O’ Toole of ‘The Hothouse Flowers.’

She lives in Wexford Town with her husband, Philip Quirke and son Ibar.

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Margaret Galvin writes with the searing honesty of an observant child, offering snapshots of life growing up in the ’60’s and ’70’s with the maturity and understanding of an adult. Her poems are sharp and yet gentle, telling the truth of things, laying bare the harshness of the times, alongside the love for family and community. 

This is a collection that blends magic with the mundane, honesty with curiosity, imagination and reflection, bringing the reader into her world with the deftness of a master wordsmith. You will find humour and heartbreak in equal measure, but most of all honesty, and memories told with the pen of a poet whose words carve images with delicate precision.

– Anne McDonald, Award-winning poet, playwright & facilitator. 

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