My Loved Has Fared Inland - Softcover

McGuckian, Medbh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930630484 ISBN 13: 9781930630482

Publisher: Wake Forest University Press, 2010

Synopsis

An elaborate collage of such themes as death, writing, nature, and love, Medbh McGuckian’s My Love Has Fared Inland shows how failure, loss, the play of seasons, and light are the subjects of her spiritual and creative journey. McGuckian’s poetry has always been self-reflexive and introverted, celebrating the aesthetic of language while mistrusting linguistic representation.

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In an elaborate collage of themes, such as death, writing, nature, and love, Medbh McGuckian's new volume shows how failure, loss and the play of seasons and light are the subjects of her inward journey of creativity and spirituality. McGuckian’s poetic has always been self-reflexive and introverted, celebrating the aesthetic of language while mistrusting linguistic representation. My Love Has Fared Inland, as Borbala Farago writes in the Irish University Review, is “like a black hole: it reveals its inner core through interaction with its readers. And once they get too close, they might as well let it take them in.”

About the Author

Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast in 1950, where she now lives with her husband and four children. She received both a BA and MA from Queen’s University, where, alongside Paul Muldoon, she studied under Seamus Heaney. In 1985, she returned to Queen’s as the university’s first female writer-in-residence. She has also held residencies at the University of Ulster and Trinity College, Dublin, as well as universities in America. Medbh McGuckian published her first two chapbooks in 1980 before her first full-length collection, The Flower Master (1982), won the Poetry Society’s Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, and an award from the Ireland Arts Council. Wake Forest University Press has published eleven books by McGuckian, beginning with On Ballycastle Beach (1988), which won the Cheltenham Award. Her other awards include the prestigious Eric Gregory Award, the Denis Devlin Award, the Bass Ireland Award for Literature, the American Ireland Fund’s Literary Award, and the 2002 Forward Prize for Best Poem, honoring She Is in the Past, She Has this Grace.” With Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Medbh McGuckian co-translated Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s collection The Water Horse (2000); she is also the author of Horsepower Pass By! A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (1999) and is the editor of an anthology of younger Northern Irish poets, The Big Striped Umbrella (1985).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wake Forest University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1930630484
• ISBN 13: 9781930630482
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 105