McCarthy, Patricia, 1944- (Personal Name)

Her A second skin, 1985: t.p. (Patricia McCarthy)

LC in OCLC, 12-02-87 (hdg.: McCarthy, Patricia, 1944- )

BL letter from author, 26 Oct. 1988 (Kathleen Margaret Patricia McCarthy, born 17 Sept. 1944)

Poetry Society website, 4 Feb. 2016: poets (Patricia McCarthy; born in Cornwall, and brought up mainly in Ireland; after studying at Trinity College, Dublin, she lived in Washington D.C., Paris, Bangladesh, Nepal and Mexico; she now lives in East Sussex, where she taught for fifteen years at a famous girls' school; her work has won prizes and been widely anthologised; her recent collections include "Rodin's shadow", "Around the mulberry bush", and "Horses between our legs")

The Poetry Shed website, 4 Feb. 2016: featured poet, 3 April 2014 (Patricia McCarthy; winner of The Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition 2013, is the editor of the national/international poetry journal, Agenda; she is half Irish and half English; ater Trinity College, Dublin, she lived in Washington D.C., Paris, Bangladesh, Nepal and Mexico; she has been settled for a long time in Mayfield, East Sussex; she was Head of English at St Leonards Mayfield School; a small collection "Survival" was published in the US and "A second skin" came out in 1985; a translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's "Book of hours" was published in 2007, translated by both Patricia McCarthy and Christine McNeill)