AS NEW softcover, clean text, solid binding, NO remainders NOT ex-library slight shelfwear / storage-wear; WE SHIP FAST. Carefully packed and quickly sent. 201601883 Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. She has worked as a teacher in her native Belfast at St. Patrick's College, Knock and an editor and is a former Writer in Residence at Queen's University, Belfast (1985-1988). She spent part of a term appointed as visiting poet and instructor in creative writing at the University of California, Berkeley (1991). Her first published poems appeared in two pamphlets, All The Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980, the year in which she received an Eric Gregory Award. In 1981 she co-published Trio Poetry 2 with fellow poets Damian Gorman and Douglas Marshall, and in 1989 she collaborated with Nuala Archer on Two Women, Two Shores. Medbh McGuckian's first major collection, The Flower Master (1982), which explores post-natal breakdown, was awarded a Rooney prize for Irish Literature, an Ireland Arts Council Award (both 1982) and an Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (1983). She is also the winner of the 1989 Cheltenham Prize for her collection On Ballycastle Beach (Wake Forest University Press). We recommend selecting Priority Mail wherever available. (No shipping to Mexico, Brazil or Italy.)

Venus and the Rain

McGuckian, Medbh

Oxford University Press

A collection of poems by Medbh McGuckian, who has established herself as one of the younger Ulster poets. She has published two other titles: "The flower master" and "Venus and the rain". Some of these poems have previously been published in magazines.

On Ballycastle Beach

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Oxford Univ. Pr.

Trio Poetry: No. 2

Gorman, Damian

Marshall, Douglas

Blackstaff Press

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 lifewithin the body, within the home, within erotic and maternal relationshipsshe gracefully unhinges semantic structures and rational thought to create an emotionally charged and very personal language.

Wake Forest University Press

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 single page, views from a room that faces in and out.

Marconi's Cottage

Captain Lavender

In this volume, Medbh McGuckian unfolds a beautiful array of themesart, religion, landscape, nation, homethat will be as seductive to initiates as they are glowingly familiar to lovers of her work. We start with sensual understanding (the form of feeling”), move among the various arenas of experience (sexuality, work, marriage), women’s sensations in particular, and even more specifically the religious passions of women, and consider their lives on islands both symbolic and real, islands with which McGuckian has often signaled the existence of the individual, as well as Ireland’s place in the larger world. The poems cast an hypnotic spell that grows until, in the deep acknowledgement of human suffering, the reader becomes a picturesque believer” in saints that have the gift of dreaming right” (Galilee Porch”). The source of such visionary belief is in perception itself. Like the currach of its title, her style moves fleetly across its contents, requiring no particular harbors because all harbors, and subjects, are its own.

In this volume, Medbh McGuckian unfolds a beautiful array of themesart, religion, landscape, nation, homethat will be as seductive to initiates as they are glowingly familiar to lovers of her work. We start with sensual understanding (the form of feeling”), move among the various arenas of experience (sexuality, work, marriage), women’s sensations in particular, and even more specifically the religious passions of women, and consider their lives on islands both symbolic and real, islands with which McGuckian has often signaled the existence of the individual, as well as Ireland’s place in the larger world. The poems cast an hypnotic spell that grows until, in the deep acknowledgement of human suffering, the reader becomes a picturesque believer” in saints that have the gift of dreaming right” (Galilee Porch”). The source of such visionary belief is in perception itself. Like the currach of its title, her style moves fleetly across its contents, requiring no particular harbors because all harbors, and subjects, are its own.

Generous selections from each of Medbh McGuckian's five books serve as an introduction to this gloriously gifted- and pioneering - poet, 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. The sensual, rhapsodic implications of her early work and the engagement of more recent poems with the politics of her native province represent a convincing vision. Selected Poems marries intellectual and emotional courage with vital language, startling but appropriate images, and beguiling art.

Selected Poems: 1978-1994

Wake Forest Univ Pr

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.

Selected Poems | Medbh McGuckian

Shelmalier

Taking her title from the Wexford fishermen who became gunmen in the Irish rising of 1798, McGuckian carries the sea changes in language she has elsewhere wrought in bodily tropes of waves, tides, liquidity, and blueness into poems where the long, long dead / steer with their warmed breath / my unislanded dreams.” In poems that warm history into the living and breathing voice, McGuckian transforms the rebels’ still unused voices” into soon-to-be-living words” (Rose Trellis”) that may yet resonate in an island where hope itself remains difficult two centuries later.

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Venus and the Rain

On Ballycastle Beach

Trio Poetry: No. 2

On Ballycastle Beach

Marconi's Cottage

Captain Lavender

Captain Lavender

Selected Poems: 1978-1994

Selected Poems | Medbh McGuckian

Shelmalier