Medbh McGuckian | The Poetry Foundation

Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 to Catholic parents in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where she now lives with her family. She studied with Seamus Heaney at Queen's University, earning a BA and MA, and later returned as their first female writer-in-residence. She is the author of over 20 poetry collections including most recently Love, The Magician (2018), Blaris Moor (2015), The High Caul Cap ...

Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity ...

Shane Alcobia-Murphy's Medbh McGuckian: ... As the speakers of poems like 'The Aphrodisiac', 'From the Dressing-Room', and 'Man-of-War-Bird' are revealed to be, in turn, Madame de Pompadour, George Sand, and Billie Holiday, Alcobia-Murphy shows how the poet both explores 'the very public struggles of female icons' and celebrates ...

AGNI 19 | AGNI Online

AGNI 19 features a group of "younger Irish poets": Medbh McGuckian, Derek Mahon, Seamus Deane, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin, and Frank Ormsby. Born from the aftermath of the prolonged violence between Ireland and England, their poems work toward their nation's collective goal: to form an identity separate from that of the English. Complementing this are poems by James Galvin ...

'You Took Away My Biography': The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian - JSTOR

The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian The poetry of Medbh McGuckian has been variously described as mannered,1 whimsical2 and, rather insultingly, as "colourful guff".3 It is the aim of this article to counter such narrow critical appraisals and demonstrate how the deliberately complex nature of her work is not merely an aesthetic pose.

"The Name Flows from the Naming": The Key to Understanding Medbh ...

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how a reading of Martin Heidegger's philosophy might illuminate McGuckian's work and to examine the ways in which it helps to define (and affirm) it as poetry.Based on original research into the sources of McGuckian's poems, I want to argue that her texts often declare their status as poetic texts, that an uncovering of her intertextual ...

Medbh McGuckian - Wikipedia

Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography. She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast. [1]

Medbh McGuckian | AGNI Online

Medbh McGuckian is the author of numerous books of poetry, including her Selected Poems, published in 1997 by the Wake Forest University Press. (updated 6/2010) AGNI. Open. Close. About. History. Awards. Mission. Our People. Staff. Authors. The Friends of AGNI. The Journal. Archive. Order print issues. Subscribe. News and Events. Submit. Contact.

Medbh McGuckian - British and Irish Literature - Oxford Bibliographies

Medbh McGuckian: The Poetics of Exemplarity. Aberdeen, Scotland: Aberdeen University Press, 2012. This is the first single-author monograph on McGuckian's work. Taking McGuckian's relationship with the female writers who preceded her as its central preoccupation, it also contains extended discussions of the themes of memory, elegy, and trauma.

Project MUSE - The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian

The book contains eleven essays by internationally known scholars, a new interview with McGuckian herself, and a detailed bibliography. McGuckian's critical reputation has grown dramatically over the last decade and she is now a poet with an international reputation. This collection provides a timely and engaging appraisal of her work.

Flower Logic: The Poems of Medbh Mcguckian - JSTOR

In casual discussions of the Irish poet Medbh (pronounced like Queen Maeve) McGuckian's work, I've often heard the responses "flowery," "irrational," or "strange" used. Yet I think "sensual" and "intricate" are far better words to describe this poet's compel-lingly original poems. McGuckian's imagination does more than en-