The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems traces Medbh Mc Guckian s remarkable trajectory through fourteen volumes published between 1982 and 2013, amply displaying her bewitching, opulent imagination.
Her other awards include the prestigious Eric Gregory Award, the Denis Devlin Award, the Bass Ireland Award for Literature, the Americ.
Wake Forest University Press has published eleven books by Mc Guckian, beginning with On Ballycastle Beach (1988), which won the Cheltenham Award.
Medbh Mc Guckian 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.
She has also held residencies at the University of Ulster and Trinity College, Dublin, as well as universities in America.
In 1985, she returned to Queen s as the university s first female writer-in-residence.
She received both a BA and MA from Queen s University, where, alongside Paul Muldoon, she studied under Seamus Heaney.
Readers open to her enigmatic syntactical structures, wide-angled metaphors, and metamorphic images multiplying in dream-like fashion will be richly rewarded."About the Author: Medbh Mc Guckian was born in Belfast in 1950, where she now lives with her husband and four children.
Mc Guckian s Poems are firmly rooted in Northern Irish soil, yet encompass a world of interests erotic and maternal, spiritual and sensuous, private and political.
Mc Guckian s early poems, the editors point out, view Belfast s sectarian violence through the lens of the female body and domestic imagery, while her political engagement later becomes more direct.
Their selection perceptively charts the history through which the poet has lived.
A comprehensive introduction by editors Borbala Farago and Michaela Schrage-Fruh offers a valuable overview and rare insight into the work and the myriad influencesboth private and publicof this mysterious poet.
The Unfixed Horizon: New Selected Poems traces Medbh Mc Guckian s remarkable trajectory through fourteen volumes published between 1982 and 2013, amply displaying her bewitching, opulent imagination
