About Medbh McGuckian and Five Points

Today's poem is "Converted Church"

from Five Points

Medbh McGuckian was born in Belfast and lives there with her family. Her collections of poetry, including The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), On Ballycastle Beach (1988), Marconi's Cottage (1992), Captain Lavender (1995), Shelmalier (1998), and Drawing Ballerinas (2001). Her Selected Poems 1978-1994 was published in 1997. She is the recipient of the British National Poetry Competition, the Cheltenham Award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett prize, the Rooney Prize and the American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Queen's University and at the University of Ulster; Visiting Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley; and Writer-Fellow at Trinity College Dublin.
Other poems by Medbh McGuckian in Verse Daily:
August 22, 2006: "Birds, Women and Writing" " What was my last gift to you, this slack heart..."
October 23, 2004: "Unsound Ship" "I grew so stony, so polished within..."
August 3, 2003: "Sagrario" "Some have in them the deluge..."
Books by Medbh McGuckian:

Other poems on the web by Medbh McGuckian:
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Four poems
"Painting by Moonlight"
"Garden Homage"
"Love Affair with Firearms"
Medbh McGuckian according to Wikipedia.
About Five Points:

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Other poems by Five Points in Verse Daily:
December 15, 2009: "The Opening" by Philip Schultz
May 14, 2009: "Contentment" by Jane Hirshfield
May 12, 2009: "Storm Catechism" by Kim Addonizio
November 19, 2008: "Guess Work" by Christopher Buckley
November 18, 2008: "When I Was the Muse" by Kate Daniels
November 17, 2008: "Dog & Father" by Sam Pereira
May 26, 2008: "Death by Wind" by Gerald Stern
November 11, 2007: "Disciplines" by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
November 7, 2007: "Heart Poem" by Mary Oliver
November 5, 2007: "Easeful Death" by Kim Addonizio
March 18, 2006: "After a Month of Rain" by Linda Pastan
October 28, 2005: "Gone" by Malena Mörling
October 27, 2005: "Fears" Rodney Jones
October 26, 2005: "Flamingo Film" Dave Smith
October 24, 2005: "October Storm" David Baker
May 8, 2005: "Riding" Robert W. Hill
May 5, 2005: "Vessel" Cecily Parks
May 2, 2005: "Heavenly" Mary Oliver
October 23, 2004: "Unsound Ship" by Medbh McGuckian
September 19, 2003: "No Shelter" by Ann Townsend

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