Introduced by Peter Fallon and Leontia Flynn 

For almost fifty years, Medbh McGuckian's poems have dazzled and beguiled discerning readers. They are neither descriptions nor reflections of experience but, rather, experiences in themselves. They are not locations of meaning, but instead sources of sustenance for the senses. New Selected Poems, drawing on seventeen individual collections, foregrounds more explicitly feminine themes in - as Paul Muldoon has said - 'one of our most alert and alluring poets'.