Medbh McGuckian

In the deft and mysterious poems of Marconi's Cottage, McGuckian evokes the uncanny presence of a muse whose "unseduceable two rows of small black doors" hinge life and death, the two sides of a single page, views from a room that faces in and out.

Marconi's Cottage

Through the prism of illness and loss, these meditations move away from Medbh McGuckian s recent books concentrations on violence and political strife towards an acceptance of the natural order of the world. As she arrives at a mystical interpretation based on faith, the poet renders her apprehensions of renewal in characteristically rich rhythms and with dynamic emotional force. Franz Rosenzwieg, the Jewish German philosopher, wrote For only death makes life a unity. Out of the patterns of light and dark which tremble over the ground, and under a spell of the earth itself, this continually innovative author discovers, and presents, a grace which heals with its shadow. The book concludes with She is in the Past, She has this Grace , winner of the Forward/Tolman Cunard Prize for Best Single Poem, 2002.

The Face of the Earth

Damian Gorman

Trio Poetry 2

Updated, 1993 edition from one of Ireland's finest woman poets

The Flower Master and Other Poems

Eavan Boland

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Wake Forest University Press

Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

This groundbreaking anthology includes poetry from Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Mary O'Malley, Kerry Hardie, and Moya Cannon.

Medbh McGuckian

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