One of Ireland’s most internationally celebrated authors returns with a new feminist collection of poetry exploring the lives of women told through the language of men who exploited them. Despite the
Medbh McGuckian’s subject in The Book of the Angel is religious, but it is never conventional. The title is derived from the Liber Angeli, a Latin document of Early Christian Ireland in which Saint Pa
The High Caul Cap is both the name of a traditional Irish air and a symbol for the link remaining after birth between mother and child. The caul was superstitiously regarded as a good omen and so kept
One of the most gifted---if not the most gifted---of the post-war generation of lrish poets, Medbh McGuckian's new book is a masterpiece of psychic map-making. Her latest journey to the "Inland" of he
In this volume, Medbh McGuckian unfolds a beautiful array of themes?art, religion, landscape, nation, home?that will be as seductive to initiates as they are glowingly familiar to lovers of her work.
The title of Medbh McGuckian’s newest volume, Blaris Moor, refers to a traditional ballad that commemorates the trial and execution in 1797 of four militia men condemned by the authorities as members
Medbh McGuckian’s subject in The Book of the Angel is religious, but it is never conventional. The title is derived from the Liber Angeli, a Latin document of Early Christian Ireland in which Saint Pa
Generous selections from each of Medbh McGuckian’s first five collections (from 1978?1994) serve as an introduction to this gloriously gifted?and pioneering?poet, as a stock-taking moment to reconside
With this third collection, Medbh McGuckian deepens her exploration of the tension between imaginative and quotidian experience in suburban Belfast. In poems that explore a woman’s intense inner
Readers of Captain Lavender, especially if they are among the enthusiastic followers of the four previous volumes, will find McGuckian here, for various reasons, easing into clarity, even relaxing int
In the deft and mysterious poems of Marconi’s Cottage, McGuckian evokes the uncanny presence of a muse whose ?unseduceable two rows of small black doors” hinge life and death, the two sides of a singl
The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems traces Medbh McGuckian’s remarkable trajectory through fourteen volumes published between 1982 and 2013, amply displaying her bewitching, opulent imagination. A
Crossing easily the borders between the mythic and the everyday, writing familiarly of the gods of classical times or ancient Ireland and the household gods of our own age, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill reminds
