The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
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The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
10.05.2010

The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian was published today (May 10th 2010) by Cork University Press.

This is the first collection of essays solely dedicated to the achievement of this remarkable Irish poet. 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.
 
Author of twelve collections of poetry, Medbh McGuckian is one of Northern Ireland’s foremost poets. Her poetry now appears as standard reading on courses on Irish literature and culture both in Europe and in the US. Alongside this, her work is also often featured in composition and poetics courses. As this suggests, her work is not confined to the Irish Studies constituency. Because one of the major themes of her work is female consciousness and creativity she is also frequently studied on women’s studies programmes and courses on feminism. As the first book to concentrate solely on McGuckian’s achievement, this collection will become the standard work for anyone interested in her work.
 
Shane Alcobia-Murphy: Introduction
Michaela Schrage-Früh: Speaking as the North: Self and Place in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Catriona Clutterbuck: A Gibbous Voice: The Poetics of Subjectivity in the Early Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Helen Blakeman: “Poetry Must Almost Dismantle the Letters”: McGuckian, Mallarmé and Polysemantic Play
Elin Holmsten: Signs of Encounters in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry
Scott Brewster: The Space that Cleaves: The House and Hospitality in Medbh McGuckian’s Work
Conor Carville: Warding Off an Epitaph: Had I a Thousand Lives
Shane Alcobia-Murphy: “That Now Historical Ground”: Memory and Atrocity in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Richard Kirkland: Medbh McGuckian and the Politics of Minority Discourse
Borbola Farrago: “They Come Into It”: The Muses of Medbh McGuckian
Leontia Flynn: Re-assembling the Atom: Reading Medbh McGuckian’s Intertextual Materials
Shane Alcobia-Murphy and Richard Kirkland: Interview with Medbh McGuckian
Clair Wills: Coda
 
Dr Shane Alcobia-Murphy, Department of English, University of Aberdeen, is the author of Sympathetic Ink: Intertextual Relations in Northern Irish Poetry (2006). Professor Richard Kirkland, Department of English, King’s College London, is the author of Cathal O’Byrne and the Northern Revival in Ireland, 1890-1950 (2006).

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