Máighréad Medbh
Máighréad Medbh (born 1959) is an Irish writer and poet.
Máighréad Medbh
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- Máighréad Medbh
- Born
- 1959
- Birthplace
- Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland
- Occupation
- Writer
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• Name — Máighréad Medbh • Born — 1959 • Birthplace — Newcastle West, County Limerick, Ireland • Occupation — Writer • Genre — Poetry Máighréad Medbh (born 1959) is an Irish writer and poet.
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Born in 1959 in Newcastle West, County Limerick, Medbh now lives in Dublin. She is known as a performative poet and much of her focus has been on live performance since the 1990s, when she was a pioneer in the Irish performance renascence. She has published eight poetry collections and a mixed genre work, as well as three e-novels. She has won awards, including the Single Poem Prize Listowel Writers’ Week 2016, for 'Easter 2016,' and her verse fantasy, Parvit of Agelast, was shortlisted for the Pigott Poetry Prize in 2017. She has been awarded a bursary from the Irish Arts Council, and has had several school residencies. She collaborated with writers Deirdre Brennan and Nuala Ní Chonchúir on the volume of poetry, Divas! (2003).
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- 1.Winners 2017. Listowel Writers Week.
- 2.MaighreadMedbh. Máighréad Medbh.
- 3.Oxford Press. REFERENCE ENTRY: Medbh, Máighréad (1959)The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.
- 4.Angela Bourke. The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing. NYU Press. 1352–. 2002. 978-0-8147-9907-9.
- 5.Maighread Medbh's YouTube Channel
- 6.Carlow poet launches new book at festival. The Nationalist. 135. 13 June 2003.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 48
- Imbolg. (Dublin: Arlen House, 2020)
- Parvit of Agelast: A Verse Fantasy. (Dublin: Arlen House, 2016)
- Pagan to the Core (Dublin, Arlen House, 2014)
- Savage Solitude: Reflections of a Reluctant Loner (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2013)
- Twelve Beds for the Dreamer (Dublin, Arlen House, 2010)
- When the Air Inhales You (Galway, Arlen House, 2009)
- Split in ¡Divas!. (Galway: Arlen House, 2003)
- CD: Out of My Skin Dublin: Odin Poetries, 2002
- Tenant (The Cliffs of Moher, Salmon Poetry, 1999)
- The Making of a Pagan (Belfast, Blackstaff Press, 1990)
- The 13th Cone (2014)
- The Coal-black Sea (2013)
- The Body Coat (2013)
- Flight. Winner of the Janet Mullarney Prize 2020
- Bold Writing. Selected for screening by MExIndex 2020
- The Rescue, a four-part serialised story for children, set to music by Fergal Carroll, was broadcast on Ireland’s Lyric FM radio station in December 2007 and December 2008.
- Migrant Shores: Irish, Moroccan & Galician Poetry. Edited by Manuela Palacios. Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 2017
- Forked Tongues: Galician, Basque and Catalan Women’s Poetry in Translations by Irish Writers. Edited by Manuela Palacios. Bristol: Shearsman Books, 2012
- To The Winds Our Sails: Irish Writers Translate Galician Poetry. Edited by Mary O’Donnell and Manuela Palacios. Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 2010
- Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland. Dublin: Arlen House, 2018
- Washing Windows? Irish Women Write Poetry. Dublin: Arlen House, 2017
- Stony Thursday Book 2015. Edited by Mary O’Donnell. Limerick Arts Office, 2015
- And Agamemnon Dead: An Anthology of Early Twenty First Century Irish Poetry. Edited by Peter O’Neill & Walter Ruhlmann. Paris: Muavaise Graine, 2015
- Dream of a City: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry from Limerick City of Culture. 2014. Astrolabe Press, 2014
- The Stony Thursday Book No. 13, Autumn 2014. Edited by Peter Sirr. Limerick Arts Office, 2014
- What We Found There: Poets Respond to the Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland. Edited by Theo Dorgan. Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2013
- The Stony Thursday Book No. 12. Edited by Paddy Bushe. Limerick Arts Office, 2013
- The Blue Max Review. Rebel Poetry, Fermoy International Poetry Festival, 2013
- Shine On. Edited by Pat Boran. Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2011
- Dogs Singing. Edited by Jessie Lendennie. Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 2010
- Salmon: A Journey in Poetry. Edited by Jessie Lendennie. Co. Clare: Salmon Poetry, 2007
- Something Beginning with P. Edited by Seamus Cashman. Dublin: O’Brien Press, 2004
- Forgotten Light. Edited by Louise C. Callaghan. Dublin: A. & A. Farmar, 2003
- The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Volumes IV & V: Irish Women's Writing and Traditions. Edited by Angela Bourke et al. Cork: Cork University Press, 2002
- Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry. Edited by Todd Swift & Philip Norton. New York: Rattapallax Press, 2002
- The White Page / An Bhileog Bhán. Edited by Joan McBreen. Galway: Salmon Publishing, 1999
- An Cloigeann is a Luach / What Worth the Head. Edited by Evelyn Conlon. Limerick: Limerick County Council, 1998
- Nautilus Literarischer Taschenkalender 1996. Edited by Jürgen Schneider, Hamburg: Nautilus, 1996
- Poems in My Earphone. Collected by John Agard. Harlow, Essex: Longman Literature, 1995
- Hearsay: Performance Poems Plus. Compiled by Paul Beasley. London: Bodley Head Children's Books, 1994
- Ireland's Women: Writings Past and Present. Selected by Katie Donovan, A. Norman Jeffares & Brendan Kennelly. Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 1994
- The Popular Front of Contemporary Poetry. Edited by Paul Beasley. London: Apples & Snakes, 1992
- I Wouldn't Thank you for a Valentine. Edited by Carol Ann Duffy. London: Viking / Penguin 1992
- The Virago Book of Wicked Verse. Edited by Jill Dawson. London: Virago, 1992
- Irrlandt, Ireland, Irland. ed. Jürgen Schneider. Berlin: Druckhaus Galrev, 1992
- Monthly Blog on Website 2012-2020
- Prose piece in New Planet Cabaret, ed. Dave Lordan. Dublin: RTE, 2013
- Essay included in Irish Spirit, ed. Patricia Monahan. Dublin: Wolfhound Press, 2001
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