At university, she was taught by Seamus Heaney
, and met other poets including Michael Longley
, Paul Muldoon
, and Ciaran Carson
. Her MA thesis on Irish nineteenth-century writers and Gothic fiction dealt...
Friends, Associates
Seamus Heaney
A friendship that helped SH
's poetry was that with Philip Hobsbaum
, who managed a living transplant of the 1960s Group from London to Belfast.
MMG
found the literary activity while she was at university very formative to her work, and notes that poets such as Seamus Heaney
(her teacher), Michael Longley
, Paul Muldoon
, and Ciaran Carson
all...
Occupation
Jo Shapcott
JS
became president of the Poetry Society
, taking over from Paul Muldoon
.
“Jo Shapcott is the new president of the Poetry Society”. The Poetry Society: Press Room, 10 Nov. 2005.
Textual Production
Seamus Heaney
When SH
, then a schoolteacher, began writing poetry in the 1960s, one of his models was the Anglo-Saxon poetry studied on his degree course. When contemplating a translation from that language years later he...
Textual Production
Medbh McGuckian
A collection of MMG
's personal and literary papers, Medbh McGuckian Papers, 1969-1994 is housed among manuscript sources for women's history among the Special Collections of the Robert W. Woodruff Library
at Emory University
in...
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Texts
McGuckian, Medbh, and Paul Muldoon. Single Ladies. Interim Press, 1980.