Reading Medbh McGuckian

Reading Medbh McGuckian Synopsis

Reading Medbh McGuckian is a highly original study of renowned Northern Irish poet Medbh McGuckian. Fellow poet Leontia Flynn offers close readings of McGuckian's early and mid-career work in an attempt to shed new light on the poet's complexities, while remaining clear, accessible and highly involving. Making use of valuable new research suggesting that much of McGuckian's 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.