August 2007  80 pages
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Shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Times Poetry Now Award

"She has hit on a dream-to-reason ratio perfect for replicating what she calls 'the feminine subconcious, or semi-consciousness.' " Carmine Starnino, Poetry

2007   80 pages
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Shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Times Poetry Now Award

"[T]he privacy of the voice, and the sense of mysterious secrecy about the luminous images, are qualities that make this work compelling... This poetry is ambitious and mysterious." Magdalena Kay, World Literature in Review

2004   88 pages
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Shortlisted for the 2005 Irish Times Poetry Now Prize

"Sensuous and intellectual at once, McGuckian's poetry is marked by a kind of ecstatic flow that never leaves the ground." Tom D'Evelyn, Providence Journal

2004   88 pages
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Shortlisted for the 2005 Irish Times Poetry Now Prize

"Like a medieval painting whose archaic symbolism is lost on modern viewers, the beauty of McGuckian's work proves ravishing, uncanny." Megan Harlan, San Francisco Chronicle

2002   130 pages
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"Her use of metaphor is freer and more extravagant than anything I've read recently in American or English poetry, and her poems work wonders through simile….For readers able to suspend the tendency to grasp at explication and who can enjoy the drama of shifting identities and the play of imagination, these poems are not to be missed." Richard Tillinghast, The New York Times Book Review

2002   130 pages
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"McGuckian is…in her radical reconfiguring of English poetic conventions, imaginatively liberating the language of Northern Ireland from its old agonies. If there is a more audacious and important poetry being written today, I have not read it." Kate Daniels, The Southern Review

1998   120 pages
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Taking her title from the Wexford fishermen who became gunmen in the Irish rising of 1798, McGuckian carries the sea changes in language she has elsewhere wrought in bodily tropes of waves, tides, liquidity, and blueness into poems where “the long, long dead/ steer with their warmed breath/ my unislanded dreams” (“Feastday of Peace”).

1998   120 pages
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Taking her title from the Wexford fishermen who became gunmen in the Irish rising of 1798, McGuckian carries the sea changes in language she has elsewhere wrought in bodily tropes of waves, tides, liquidity, and blueness into poems where “the long, long dead/ steer with their warmed breath/ my unislanded dreams” (“Feastday of Peace”).

1997   94 pages
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“This volume achieves exactly what a Selected Poems should: It is a splendid introduction to a lavishly gifted, complex writer, a point of entry into the manifold treasures of her oeuvre.” Irish Times

1997   94 pages
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“[T]his selection has been beautifully chosen to introduce her to a new audience. Here are classically clear, startling lyrics with a buried wildness: poems to break your heart and save it. … Marvellous.”  The Poetry Book Society