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“The Name Flows from the Naming”: The Key to Understanding Medbh McGuckian’s Poetry

Shane Alcobia-Murphy-2008-03-15-Estudios Irlandeses

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I have nothing to say. I am saying it and that is poetry. (Cage, 1973: 109) It is by now a critical commonplace to describe Medbh McGuckian’s poetry as “obscure”, a term rarely used in approbation with regards to her oeuvre. Accurately summarising the current critical consensus, Rui Carvalho Homem writes

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I have nothing to say. I am saying it and that is poetry. (Cage, 1973: 109) It is by now a critical commonplace to describe Medbh McGuckian’s poetry as “obscure”, a term rarely used in approbation with regards to her oeuvre. Accurately summarising the current critical consensus, Rui Carvalho Homem writes

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PoetryReading (process)LiteratureKey (lock)PhilosophyLinguisticsArtComputer science

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