Marconi's Cottage by Medbh Mcguckian
In Marconi’s Cottage Medbh McGuckian describes the drama of the domesticated mother’s endeavour to be or to become a free, autonomous artist and continues her investigation into the relationship between feminine and masculine principles. A sequence of poems mourning the apparent sacrifice of one fertility to the other is followed by a spate of poems which celebrate the physical and culminate in actual birth. As Molly Bendell writes in The Antioch Review, ‘The beauty and genius of (her) poems continually redefine our notions of poetry.’ Romantic and religious, Medbh McGuckian chronicles the conditions of her life and the loss and recovery of self in poems that are challenging, mesmerising and rewarding.
The whole of this collection reveals a degree of control, assuredness and intellectual courage rare in contemporary poetry-- Clair Wills * TLS *
Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast where she continues to live. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Queen’s University, Belfast, the University of Ulster, Coleraine, and Trinity College, Dublin, and was Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley. Her collections include Venus and the Rain, On Ballycastle Beach, Marconi’s Cottage, Captain Lavender, The Flower Master & Other Poems, Selected Poems, Shelmalier, Drawing Ballerinas, The Face of the Earth (2002), Had I A Thousand Lives (2003), The Book of the Angel (2004), The Currach Requires No Harbours (2006), My Love has Fared Inland (2008), The High Caul Cap (2012), Blaris Moor (2015) and Marine Cloud Brightening (2019, shortlisted for the 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now Award). Among the prizes she has won are the National Poetry Competition, the Rooney Prize, the Bass Ireland Award for Literature, the Denis Devlin Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, and, in 2002, the Forward Prize for Best Poem. She received the American Ireland Fund Literary Award in 1998 and an honorary Doctorate from the University of Aberdeen. Medbh McGuckian is a member of Aosdána.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852241971 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852241977 |
| Title | Marconi's Cottage |
| Author | Medbh Mcguckian |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 1992-03-26 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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