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Selected Poems
Paperback, 94 pages
Published
December 1st 1997
by Wake Forest University Press
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Medbh McGuckian and I are probably never going to be bff. Her poems are striking and beautiful, but I've read this whole collection twice now, and I am still not exactly sure what any particular poem is about. I am beginning to think I picked up a volume of cast-offs from her other collections. The poems are more atmospheric, mood pieces about feeling and subconscious rather than actual events or narrative. And they all run together so much so that I can't name a single one. I feel like I need t...more
Read in '97. I have a terrible memory. I need to reread this one as well.
"there seems only to be this one way of happening,
and a poem to prove it has happened."
-from "Marconi's Cottage"
"...I could escape
from any other prison but my own
unjust pursuit of justice
that turns one sort of poetry into another."
-from "The Albert Chain"
McGuckian is AMAZING. Those five stars are for her fabulousness. Language, metaphor, fire.
I'm actually sorry to have this book of selected poems rather than each individual book with all her poems.
I'm actually sorry to have this book of selected poems rather than each individual book with all her poems.
Her writing gets better as the book (and time) progresses. Complex and beautiful. She is the queen of similes.
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Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast on 12 August 1950 and educated at a Dominican convent and Queen's University, Belfast. She has worked as a teacher and an editor and is a former Writer in Residence at Queen's University, Belfast (1985-8).
Her first published poems appeared in two pamphlets, Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980, the year in which she received an Eric Grego...more
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Her first published poems appeared in two pamphlets, Single Ladies: Sixteen Poems and Portrait of Joanna, in 1980, the year in which she received an Eric Grego...more
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