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The Flower Master and Other Poems
Updated, 1993 edition from one of Ireland's finest woman poets
Medbh McGuckian
This book offers a wide-ranging analysis of the entire corpus of Medbh McGuckian’s published work. Its objective is to provide both a readable synthesis of existing criticism, in a fashion which will be generally useful to academics and students, and also to offer an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies on the basis of new research. The book investigatesa variety of previously neglected themes, in particular McGuckian’s exploration of ideas of creativity and performativity in her poetry. Over the past two decades McGuckian has been recognized by both her fellow poets and by literary critics as one of the most original, daring and important poetic voic...
Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian
Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh McGuckian is an innovative contribution to the scholarship on Belfast poet, Medbh McGuckian. This book considers the entire oeuvre of this globally respected Irish woman writer, a member of the contemporary avant-garde with now fifteen (U.S. published) volumes and numerous individual publications. The author positions McGuckian’s oeuvre as political and historical poetry and offers a provocative new assessment of its crafted silences. This work argues that it is the muted character of McGuckian’s poems—a consequence of a defamiliarized language, the overwhelming sway of the image, and a profusion of intertextual quoting—that constitutes t...
Silence and Articulacy in the Poetry of Medbh Mcguckian
This book comprehensively looks at the oeuvre of a major Irish woman poet, Medbh McGuckian. It positions her oeuvre as political, historical poetry crafted through the poetics of silence: a defamiliarized English, a reliance on the image, and the deployment of multiple forms of intertextuality.
Reading Medbh McGuckian
Reading Medbh McGuckian is a highly original study of renowned Northern Irish poet Medbh McGuckian. Fellow poet Leontia Flynn offers close readings of McGuckianOCOs early and mid-career work in an attempt to shed new light on the poetOCOs complexities, while remaining clear, accessible and highly involving. Making use of valuable new research suggesting that much of McGuckianOCOs poetic language is gathered from other sources, Reading Medbh McGuckian begins as a series of observational readings, analysing the poems and textual materials from which the poem has been developed, and goes on to suggest how her poetic technique has been applied in her later work."
The High Caul Cap
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 at the hearth as a preservative against drowning. This symbolic gesture helps us to fathom the watery imagery in this volume, which traces the decline and death of the poet's mother. Medbh McGuckian's writing is always profoundly sensual, but now, with the maternal body at stake in its meditations, the physical takes on supernatural powers. Poetry relies on the senses for proof, much as the doubter relies on touch to be convinced of the miraculous. Mother-daughter relationships move down the ge...
On Ballycastle Beach
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Northern Irish Poetry and the Russian Turn
Seamus Heaney, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian are the three most influential poets from Northern Ireland who have composed poems with a link to the Tsarist Empire and the Soviet Union. Through their references to Russia the three poets achieve a geographical and mental detachment allowing them to turn a fresh eye on the Northern Irish situation.
Contemporary Irish Women Poets
In twentieth-century Ireland the relationship between the personal past and narrative history has exerted a shaping force on the lives of individual writers and on the formation of literary communities. This study explores this important intersection of the personal and the political, and its aesthetic consequences, in individual poems and volumes by contemporary Irish women. Collins argues for the central importance of memory in the work of contemporary Irish women poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckian, and for its significant role in their creative development and critical reception.
Selected Poems, 1978-1994
"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."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
