Medbh McGuckian Bibliography

Primary Sources: Works by Medbh McGuckian

---------, and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. "Comhrá." Transcription of a conversation between Medbh McGuckian and Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 581-614.

---------. Captain Lavender. Winston-Salem, N.C.: Wake Forest University Press, 1995.

---------. "County Down." Thirty-two Counties. Ed. Donovan Wylie. London: Secker & Warburg, 1989: 109-111.

---------. "Dear Rain." Poetry. Antaeus 60 (Spring 1988): 198-9.

---------. "The Dream-Language of Fergus." Poetry. The Yale Review 77 (Winter 1988): 237.

---------. The Flower Master. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980.

---------. "Feachtas Gharrai An Mhargaidh." The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 447-9.

---------. "Filming the Famine." Poetry. Chicago Review 43 (Winter 1997): 1-2.

---------. "Foliage Ceiling Rose." Poetry. Trans. N. Ní Dhomhnaill. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 444.

---------. "Head of a Woman." Poetry. Antaeus 60 (Spring 1988): 201-2.

---------. Interview. Videotape. Conducted by Ronald Marken. Belfast, July 1988.

---------. Interview. Conducted by Allison Muri. Ottawa, March 1991.

---------. "The Jasmine-Picker." Poetry. Chicago Review 43 (Winter 1997): 3-4.

---------. "Lighthouse With Dead Flowers." Poetry. Partisan Review 55 (Winter 1988): 64-5.

---------. "The Lion Tamer." Poetry. The Yale Review 77 (Winter 1988): 238-40.

---------. Marconi's Cottage. Winston-Salem, NC: Wake Forest University Press, 1992.

---------. "Mrs. Orchard." Poetry. Antaeus 60 (Spring 1988): 200.

---------. "Naming the Names." Lecture. Audiotape. Rec. April 17, 1987. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma.

---------. On Ballycastle Beach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.

---------. "Operation Market Garden." Poetry. Trans. N. Ní Dhomhnaill. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 446.

--------. Poetry reading. Audiotape. Rec. Feb. 1987. Saskatoon, Sk. Property of Ronald Marken, University of Saskatchewan.

---------. Poetry reading. Audiotape. Rec. March 3, 1991. Ottawa, Ont. Property of Allison Muri.

---------. "Rós Sileála Duilleogach." Poetry. Trans. N. Ni Dhomhnaill. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 445.

---------. "Speaking into the Candles." Poetry. Michigan Quarterly Review 32 (Winter 1993): 130-1.

---------. "Story Between Two Notes." Poetry. Michigan Quarterly Review 32 (Winter 1993): 128-9.

---------, and Nuala Archer. Two Women, Two Shores. Baltimore, Md.: New Poets Series, 1989.

---------. Venus and the Rain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

---------. "Whimbrel." Poetry. The Yale Review 77 (Winter 1988): 238.

---------. "Yeastlight." Poetry. Partisan Review 55 (Summer 1988): 476-7.

Ní Dhomhnaill, Nuala. "Daphne and Apollo." Poetry. Trans. Medbh McGuckian. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 433-4.

---------. "The Marianne Faithfull Hairdo." Poetry. Trans. Medbh McGuckian. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 435-7.

---------. "The Merfolk and the Written Word." Poetry. Trans. Medbh McGuckian. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 441-3.

---------. "The Mermaid in the Labour Ward." Poetry. Trans. Medbh McGuckian. The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 439-40.

Secondary Sources: Articles on and Reviews of McGuckian's Works

Bedient, Calvin. "On Ballycastle Beach." Review. Parnassus: Poetry in Review 16.1 (1990): 195-203+.

Behrendt, Stephen C. "Captain Lavender." Review. Prairie Schooner 70 (Fall 1996): 175-82.

Bendall, Molly. "Flower Logic: The Poems of Medbh McGuckian." The Antioch Review 48 (Summer 1990): 367-71.

Benfey, Christopher. "A Venusian Sends a Postcard Home." Rev. of Venus and the Rain. Parnassus: Poetry in Review 12 (1985): 500-512.

Booth, Martin. Rev. of Venus and the Rain. British Book News October 1984: 624.

Brandes, Rand. "A Dialogue with Medbh McGuckian, Winter 1996-1997." Studies in the Literary Imagination 30 (Fall 1997): 37-61.

Byron, Catherine. "'Such Declarations May be Routine Enough in the McGuckian Household'." The Honest Ulsterman 87 (1989): 87-89.

Cook, Jon. "New found land." Rev. of Venus and the Rain. New Statesman 31 August 1984: 26.

Dawe, Gerald. "Checkpoints: The Younger Irish Poets." The Crane Bag 6.1 (1982): 85.

Dooley, Tim. "Soft Cushionings." Rev. of The Flower Master. Times Literary Supplement 29 October 1982: 1200.

Drexel, John. "Threaders of Double-Stranded Words: News From the North of Ireland." Rev. of On Ballycastle Beach. New England Review and Bread Loaf Quarterly 12.2 (1989): 179-192.

Gitzen, Julian. "Northern Ireland: The Post-Heaney Generation." Poesis 6.2 (1985): 47-64.

Haberstroh, Patricia Boyle. Women Creating Women: Contemporary Irish Women Poets. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1996.

Henigan, Robert H. "Contemporary Women Poets In Ireland." Concerning Poetry 18.1-2 (1985): 103-115.

Jenkins, Alan. "Hearts in the Right Place." Rev. of On Ballycastle Beach. Observer 10 July 1988: 42.

---------. "Private & Public Languages." Rev. of The Flower Master. Encounter 59 (1982): 56-63.

Longley, Edna. "Subtitling." Rev. of Single Ladies. New Statesman 24 April 1981: 19-20.

Lucas, John. "John Lucas Reviews Five New Books of Verse." Rev. of The Flower Master. New Statesman. 13 August 1982: 20-21.

---------. "A Rose for the Betrayed World." Rev. of On Ballycastle Beach. New Statesman and Society 26 August 1988: 38.

Maron, Meva. "Letter." The Honest Ulsterman 88 (1989-90): 33-34.

McClatchy, J.D. "Poetry Chronicle." Rev. of Venus and the Rain. The Hudson Review 38 (1985): 157-176.

McDiarmid, Lucy. "Captain Lavender." Review. The New York Times Book Review 101 (14 April 1996): 11.

Mole, John. "From Wave to Cave: Recent Poetry." Rev. of Venus and the Rain. Encounter 63 (1984): 56-63.

Murphy, Shane. "Obliquity in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon and Medbh McGuckian." Eire-Ireland 31 (Fall/Winter 1996): 76-101.

O'Connor, Mary. "'Rising out': Medbh McGuckian's Destabilizing Poetics." Eire-Ireland 30 (Winter 1996): 154-72.

O'Neill, Michael. "Bidding for Power." Rev. of Venus and the Rain. Times Literary Supplement 30 November 1984: 1393.

Porter, Peter. "Out of the Anteroom." Rev. of The Flower Master. Observer 18 July 1982: 31.

---------. "Pleasures of Obscurity." Rev. of Venus and the Rain. Observer 19 August 1984: 19.

Porter, Susan. "The 'Imaginative Space' of Medbh McGuckian." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies. 15.2 (1989): 93-104.

Ramsey, Patrick. "Quality and Quantity." Rev. of On Ballycastle Beach. The Irish Review 5 (1988): 122-126.

Sailer, Susan Shaw. "An Interview with Medbh McGuckian." Michigan Quarterly Review 32 (Winter 1993): 111-27.

Sirr, Peter. "'How Things Begin to Happen': Notes on Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Medbh McGuckian." The Southern Review (Baton Rouge, La.) 31 (Summer 1995): 450-67.

Stanfield, Paul Scott. "Marconi's Cottage." Review. Prairie Schooner 69 (Summer 1995): 148-56.

Stevenson, Anne. "With Eyes Open and Closed." Rev. of Portrait of Joanna. Times Literary Supplement 21 August 198 1: 952.

Tillinghast, Richard. "Marconi's Cottage." Review. The New York Times Book Review 97 (30 August 1992): 12.

Welch, Robert. Rev. of The Flower Master. British Book News March 1983: 191-192.

Williams, Patrick. "Spare That Tree!" The Honest Ulsterman 86 (1989): 49-52.

Wills, Clair. "Country Feelings." Rev. of On Ballycastle Beach. Times Literary Supplement 19-25 August 1988: 915.

Wills, Clair. "Marconi's Cottage." Review. The Times Literary Supplement 4658 (10 July 1992): 23.

Related Works

Boland, Eavan. A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition. Dublin: Attic Press, 1989.

---------. "The Woman Poet in A National Tradition." Studies 76 (1987): 148-158.

---------. "Q & A with Eavan Boland." Irish Literature Supplement. Interview by Nancy Means Wright and Dennis J. Hannan . Spring 1991: 10-11.

Conboy, Sheila. "'What You Have Seen is Beyond Speech': Female Journeys in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanain." The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 16.1 (1990): 65-72.

Conroy, John. Belfast Diary: War as a Way of Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987.

Durcan, Paul. The Berlin Wall Café. Rpt. 1985, 1986, 1987. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press, Limited, 1985.

--------. The Selected Paul Durcan. 2nd Edition. Rpt. 1986, 1987. Belfast: The Blackstaff Press Limited, 1985.

Friel, Brian. Translations. U.S.A.: Samuel French, Inc., 1981.

Hannon, Dennis J. and Nancy Means Wright. "Irish Women Poets: Breaking the Silence." Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 16.2 (1990): 57-65.

Heaney, Seamus. "Feeling Into Words." Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978. Great Britain: Faber and Faber, 1980: 41-60.

---------. "The Government of the Tongue." The Government of the Tongue. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: 91-108.

---------. "The Interesting Case of Nero, Chekhov's Cognac and a Knocker." The Government of the Tongue. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: xi-xxiii.

---------. "Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam." The Government of the Tongue. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: 71-88.

Irish Women: Image and Achievement. Ed. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanain. Dublin: Arlen House, 1985.

Mandelstam, Osip. Selected Essays. Trans. Sidney Monas. Austin & London: University of Texas Press, 1977.

Marken, Ronald. "Paul Muldoon's 'Juggling a Red-Hot Half-Brick in an Old Sock': Poets in Ireland Renovate the English- Language Sonnet." Eire-Ireland, 24.1: 79-91.

Tsvetaeva, Marina. Marina Tsvetaeva, A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose. Ed. and Trans. J. Marin King. Michigan: Ardis, 1980.

---------. "The Kirillovnas." Ed. Andrew Field. Pages From Tarusa. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1964: 292- 300.