Medbh McGuckian

BORBÁLA FARAGÓ is a lecturer at Central European University in Vienna, Austria, and coeditor of five volumes, most recently Times of Mobility: Transnational Literature and Gender in Translation.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsIntroduction1. Literary Performance in Medbh McGuckian’s Early Volumes: The Flower Master, Venus and the Rain, On Ballycastle Beach, and Marconi’s Cottage2. The Politicized Aesthetic in Captain Lavender, Shelmalier, and Drawing Ballerinas  3. Death and Spirituality in The Face of the Earth, Had I a Thousand Lives, and The Book of the Angel4. Inward Journeys: The Currage Requires No Harbour, My Love Has Fared Inland, and The High Caul Cap5. Thematic Readings of Medbh McGuckian’s WorkAfterword: How to End It AllAwardsBibliographyIndex

“Essential to any postgraduate student or literary critic that is engaged with Irish and Northern Irish poetry, Medbh McGuckian is a book that offers a thorough panorama of McGuckianʼs oeuvre.” - Estudios Irlandeses “[A] thorough introduction to and detailed readings of poems, collections, an overview of the poetic career, and an extensive bibliography which will orient the uninitiated McGuckian reader very well indeed.”- Irish Studies Review