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Today's poem is "The Moondial"

from Smartish Pace

Medbh McGuckian is the author of twenty-one collections of poetry, most recently Blaris Moor (Gallery, 2015) and The Unfixed Horizon (Wake Forest, 2015). She received a BA and MA from Queen's University where she studied under Seamus Heaney. Her work has received the Poetry Society's Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Cheltenham Award, the Eric Gregory Award, the Denis Devlin Award, the Bass Ireland Award for Literature, the American Ireland Fund's Literary Award and a Forward Prize for Best Poem.

Other poems by Medbh McGuckian in Verse Daily:
November 19, 2012:   "After Afterlude" "The leather boats lift themselves..."
September 8, 2010:   "Converted Church" "I couldn't cultivate myself..."
August 22, 2006:   "Birds, Women and Writing" " What was my last gift to you, this slack heart..."
October 23, 2004:  "Unsound Ship" "I grew so stony, so polished within..."
August 3, 2003:  "Sagrario" "Some have in them the deluge..."

Books by Medbh McGuckian:

Other poems on the web by Medbh McGuckian:
Three poems
"The Sofa"
Three poems
"The Flitting"
Three poems
Three poems

Medbh McGuckian According to Wikipedia.

About Smartish Pace:

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August 20, 2010:   "Intersection" by Wendy Videlock
August 17, 2010:   "Summer Meadow in Gotland" by Joan Colby
August 16, 2010:   "The Naturalist's Last Love Poem" by Ashley Anna McHugh
April 17, 2009:   "Sand" by Bruce Bond
April 15, 2009:   "On Finally Blaming Myself a Little Finally" by Maggie Glover
April 14, 2009:   "Missed Connections" by Sherman Alexie
May 6, 2007:   "The Tightrope Walker" by Lesley Dauer
May 5, 2007:   "The Fox Explains The Dream of Foxes" by Hannah Craig
April 7, 2006:   "Me, The Wife: Versions of Medusa" by Lynnell Edwards
April 4, 2006:   "Palinurus" by A.E. Stallings
September 22, 2005:   "Capturing a Plum Blossom" by John Pursley III
September 21, 2005:   "eBay Sonnets" Denise Duhamel
September 19, 2005:   "Would-Be Pastoral Elegy" Gail White
February 4, 2005:  "Church" by Megan Snyder-Camp
February 3, 2005:  "Translation" by Robert Morgan
February 2, 2005:  "Second Bearing, 1919" by Claudia Emerson
January 31, 2005:  "Heat Lightning" by Ted Kooser
August 30, 2004:  "Without Mythologies" by Henry Weinfield
August 29, 2004:  "Fifty-Fifty" by Patricia Clark
August 23, 2004:  "Olivia Between Acts" by Stuart Lishan
August 21, 2004:  "Garden" by Theodore Worozbyt
January 8, 2004:  "Missouri River" by Lawrence Revard
January 7, 2004:  "Pontoon Pantoum #505" by Kathy Fagan
January 5, 2004:  "The Fool Card" by Annie Finch
July 30, 2003:  "The Fruit Thereof" by William Wenthe
July 29, 2003:  "Slow Leak" by Ellen Doré Watson
July 28, 2003:  "Poor Excuses" by Andi Werblin
December 1, 2002:  Squirrel Hunting by Edmund August
November 30, 2002:  49 Views of Childhood by Bin Ramke
November 28, 2002:  The Birdhouse by Greg Williamson
November 26, 2002:  A Letter from Mama (1916-1999) by Marilyn Nelson

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