New-in-Paperback: Medbh McGuckian

Borbála Faragó

2025
238 pages
$34.95
ISBN 9781684485499
Contemporary Irish Writers

This wide-ranging study of one of the most innovative, daring, and important poetic voices in contemporary Ireland analyzes Mebdh McGuckian's entire corpus, offering both an original contribution to the field of contemporary Irish literary studies and a readable synthesis of existing criticism that will be useful to academics and students. Thematically and methodologically unique, the book examines previously neglected subjects in McGuckian's work, in particular the poet's exploration of creativity and performativity, while also emphasizing the cohesiveness of individual volumes in light of the poet's constant change and development. This critical investigation allows readers a deeper understanding of McGuckian's topical preoccupations and the evolution of her distinctive poetic voice.

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Reviews
"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

About the author:

Borbála Faragó is Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow in the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University Budapest.

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