Irish Poetry
Medbh McGuckian - Captain Lavender (paperback)
Captain Lavender represents a new stage in the growth of one of our most original and honest writers, one who can claim courageously, "meanwhile is my anchor."
McGuckian's "lines may be thought to take a stage further the possibilities for a contemporary women's writing opened up by Sylvia Plath in her Ariel poems." Neil Corcoran, English Poetry Since 1940
Poem from Captain Lavender (1995) by Medbh McGuckian
Captain Lavender
Night-hours. The edge of a fuller moon
waits among the interlocking patterns
of a flier's sky.
Sperm names, ovum names, push inside
each other. We are half-taught
our real names, from other lives.
Emphasise your eyes. Be my flare-
path, my uncold begetter,
my air-minded bird-sense.
$9.95
1995 83 pages
paperback
ISBN 978-0-916390-66-2
Captain Lavender represents a new stage in the growth of one of our most original and honest writers, one who can claim courageously, "meanwhile is my anchor."
McGuckian's "lines may be thought to take a stage further the possibilities for a contemporary women's writing opened up by Sylvia Plath in her Ariel poems." Neil Corcoran, English Poetry Since 1940
Poem from Captain Lavender (1995) by Medbh McGuckian
Captain Lavender
Night-hours. The edge of a fuller moon
waits among the interlocking patterns
of a flier's sky.
Sperm names, ovum names, push inside
each other. We are half-taught
our real names, from other lives.
Emphasise your eyes. Be my flare-
path, my uncold begetter,
my air-minded bird-sense.
$9.95
1995 83 pages
paperback
ISBN 978-0-916390-66-2