The Poetry of Medbh McGuckian: The Interior of Words

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Medbh McGuckian The Poetry of Edited by Shane Alcobia-Murphy and Richard Kirkland 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 Borbála Faragó: ‘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: Afterword Portrait of Medbh McGuckian 2008-09. Jeffrey Morgan Cover by Burns Design www.corkuniversitypress.com Medbh McGuckian 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). Author of twelve collections of poetry, Medbh McGuckian is one of 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. Although always engaged by Ireland and the possibilities of a national literary tradition, critical interest in her work is not confined to Irish Studies. As one of the major themes of her work is female consciousness and creativity its influence has extended far beyond Ireland itself.As the first book to concentrate solely on McGuckian’s achievement, this collection will become the standard guide for anyone interested in her work. ...