Magic Circle

Authors

“Magic Circle” by Catherine Phil MacCarthy. From This Hour of the Tide. Salmon Poetry, 1994.

Catherine Phil MacCarthy

Catherine Phil MacCarthy is native of Crecora, Co Limerick, and has lived in Dublin since 1987. Her poetry collections include Daughters of the House (2019), The Invisible Threshold (2012), Suntrap (2007), the blue globe (1998), This Hour of the Tide (1994), and a novel, One Room an Everywhere (2003). She is a former editor of Poetry Ireland Review (1998/99) and received The Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Irish Poetry in 2014.
Marcel De Lima Santos

Marcel De Lima Santos is a Ph.D. in Literary Studies from the University of Nottingham, England (2003). He is currently Associate Professor of Literatures in English at the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He has experience in the area of Letters, having written diverse books, translations and scientific articles in the U.S.A., Australia and the U.K. He works mainly in the areas of Literatures in English, Religion, Poetry, Comparative Literature and Ethnopoetics.