Máighréad Medbh

Máighréad Medbh (born 1959) is an Irish writer and poet.

Máighréad Medbh
Born1959
Newcastle West, Ireland
OccupationWriter
NationalityIrish
GenrePoetry

Life and work

Born in 1959 in Newcastle West, Co Limerick, Medbh now lives in Dublin. She is known as a performative poet. She has won awards including Listowel Writers’ Week, 2016 for Easter 2016 and been shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize in 2017.[1][2][3][4][5]

Bibliography
  • The Making of a Pagan (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1990)
  • Tenant (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 1999)
  • When the Air Inhales You (Galway, Arlen House, 2009)
  • Twelve Beds for the Dreamer (Dublin, Arlen House, 2010)
  • Pagan to the Core (Dublin, Arlen House, 2014)
  • Savage Solitude: Reflections of a Reluctant Loner (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2013)

References
  1. "Máighréad Medbh". Ricorso. Retrieved July 24, 2018.
  2. "Máighréad Medbh". Irish Writers Online.
  3. "REFERENCE ENTRY: Medbh, Máighréad (1959)The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature". Oxford Press.
  4. Angela Bourke (2002). The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. pp. 1352–. ISBN 978-0-8147-9907-9.

Further reading
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