Selected Poems by Medbh Mcguckian

Selected Poems by Medbh Mcguckian

Generous selections from each of Medbh McGuckian s first five collections (from 19781994) serve as an introduction to this gloriously giftedand pioneeringpoet, as a stock-taking moment to reconsider her luxuriant constructions, and as a welcome occasion to learn further how to receive the signals of her opulent imagination.

Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1950, and presently resides there with her husband and four children. She earned a BA and an MA from Queen's University, where she studied under Seamus Heaney with Paul Muldoon. She came back to Queen's in 1985 as the university's first female writer-in-residence. She has also done residencies at the University of Ulster, Trinity College, Dublin, and universities in the United States. Medbh McGuckian's first two chapbooks were published in 1980, and her first full-length collection, The Flower Master (1982), won the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award from the Poetry Society, as well as the Rooney Prize for Irish Writing and an award from the Ireland Arts Council.

McGuckian's eleven works have been published by Wake Forest University Press, beginning with On Ballycastle Beach (1988), which won the Cheltenham Award. The distinguished Eric Gregory Award, the Denis Devlin Award, the Bass Ireland Award for Literature, the American Ireland Fund's Literary Award, and the 2002 Forward Prize for Best Poem, honoring She Is in the Past, She Has This Grace, are among her other accolades. Medbh McGuckian co-translated Nuala N Dhomhnaill's collection The Water Horse (2000) with Eiléan N Chuilleanáin, and she is also the author of Horsepower Pass By!

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ISBN 13	9781852352035
ISBN 10	1852352035
Title	Selected Poems
Author	Medbh Mcguckian
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	The Gallery Press
Year published	1997-09-01
Number of pages	96
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