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McGuckian, Medbh, 1950-, poet
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Dates of existence
1950-
History
Medbh McGuckian was born in 1950 in Belfast where she lives with her family. Her previous books were published by Oxford University Press: The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984) and On Ballycastle Beach (1988). She won first prize in the National Poetry Competition in 1979, and her poems have since been published in all the major anthologies of British and Irish poetry.