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Notes and references 215 INTRODUCTION 1. Rui Carvalho Homem, ‘Looking for Clues: McGuckian, Poems and Portraits’, in Maria de Fátima Lambert (ed.), Writing and Seeing: Essays onWord and Image (Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2006), p. 187. 2. Dennis O’Driscoll, ‘Picturesque Debut’, Sunday Tribune, 8 June 1982. McGuckian Papers, MS 770, Special Collections, Emory University, box 35, folder 2. 3. Eamon Grennan,‘Trades People’, The IrishTimes, 31 July 1982. McGuckian Papers, MS 770, box 35, folder 2. See also Kevin T. McEneaney, ‘Flower Masters and Winter Works’, Irish Literary Supplement, and Douglas Sealey, review of The Flower Master, Poetry Ireland Review, 5–6, pp. 57–8. Both reviewers express their concern about The Flower Master’s obliquity. 4. Avril Forrest,‘Flowers and War’, The ConnaughtTribune, 2 July 1982, p. 1. 5. Medbh McGuckian,‘Mr McGregor’s Garden’, The Flower Master (Oxford University Press, 1982), p. 14. McGuckian’s poem is cited on the right and the intertext from which she composes the poem is cited on the left (Margaret Lane, The Magic Years of Beatrix Potter [London: Frederick Warne, 1978]). 6. Robin Lane Fox,‘Poetry Now’, FinancialTimes, 8 January 1983. McGuckian Papers, MS 770, box 35, folder 2. 7. Deryn Rees-Jones, Carol Ann Duffy (Plymouth: Northcote House, 1999), p. 17. 8. Lane, MagicYears, p. 9. 9. Ibid., p. 61. 10. See Clair Wills, Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993). 11. McGuckian,‘The Rising Out’, Venus and the Rain (Oxford University Press, 1984), p. 35. 12. Aidan C. Mathews,‘Mandrin Muse’, The IrishTimes, 13 October 1984. McGuckian Papers, MS 770, box 35, folder 3. 13. Peter Porter,‘Pleasures of Obscurity’, The Observer, 19 August 1984, p. 19. 14. Jon Cook,‘New Found Land’, New Statesman, 31 August 1984, p. 26. 15. James Simmons,‘A Literary Leg-pull’, Belfast Review, 8 (Autumn 1984), p. 27. 16. Robert Nye,‘An Irish Parnassian atWork’, TheTimes, 24 January 1985. McGuckian Papers, MS 770, box 35, folder 3. 17. Karen Petersen and J.J.Wilson, Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to theTwentieth Century (London:The Women’s Press, 1978). 18. Ibid., p. 3. 19. Ibid., p. 3, emphases added. 20. Ibid., p. 4. 21. Lebrun cited in ibid., p. 52. 22. Ibid., p. 135, emphasis added. 23. Rilke cited in ibid., p. 110, emphasis added. 24. Joanna Griffin cited in ibid., p. 62. 25. Alan Jenkins,‘Hearts on the Right Place’, The Observer, 10 July 1988. McGuckian Papers, MS 770, box 35, folder 4. 26. David Herd,‘Other Rooms’, New Statesman and Society, 28 August 1992, p. 36. 27. Sean O’Brien,‘Athletic Aesthetics’, The SundayTimes, 12 July 1992, Books, p. 12. 28. Allison Rolls, review of Marconi’s Cottage, Krino, 15 (Spring 1994), p. 99. 29. See Guinn Batten,‘“The More with Which We Are Connected”:The Muse of the Minus in the Poetry of McGuckian and Kinsella’, in Anthony Bradley and Maryann GialanellaValiulis (eds.), Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997), pp. 212–44; Moynagh Sullivan, ‘The Informal Poetics of Medbh McGuckian’, Nordic Irish Studies, 3.1 (2004), pp. 75–92; Erin C. Mitchell, ‘Slippage at the Threshold: Postmodern Hospitality in Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry’, Literature InterpretationTheory, 17.2 (2006), pp. 137–55. 30. Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror:An Essay on Abjection, trans. Leon S. Roudiez (New York: Columbia University Press, 1982). 31. McGuckian, ‘To Such a Hermes’, The Soldiers of Year II (North Carolina: Wake Forest University Press, 2002), p. 40. McGuckian’s text is on the right, the quotations from Kristeva on the left. 32. Ibid., p. 1. 33. Ibid., p. 207. 34. Ibid., p. 198, emphasis added. 35. Ibid., p. 188, emphasis added. 36. McGuckian,‘Comhrá:A Conversation between Medbh McGuckian and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’, interview by Laura O’Connor, The Southern Review, 31.3 (Summer 1995), pp. 605–6. 37. McGuckian,‘“MyWords AreTraps”:An Interview with Medbh McGuckian’, interview by John Hobbs, New Hibernia Review, 2.1 (Spring 1998), p. 114. 38. Kristeva, Powers of Horror, p. 191. 39. Ibid., p. 155, emphasis added. 40. Floyd Skloot,‘Tracking the Muse’, Notre Dame Review, 17 (Winter 2004), p. 150. 41. Ray McDaniel, review of The Book of the Angel, The Constant Critic http://www.constantcritic.com/ray_mcdaniel/the_book_of_the_angel/ (accessed 20 July 2009). 42. Dillon Johnston and Guinn Batten,‘Contemporary Poetry in English: 1940–2000’, in Margaret Kelleher and Philip O’Leary (eds.), The Cambridge History of Irish Literature , vol. 2 (Cambridge University Press, 2006), p...

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