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'The
mysterious and ethereal quality of Venus and the Rain is
part of its immediate attraction . . . her evasive and hermetic
technique is central to her meaning. Her poetry has a genuine
moral authority.'
— Nick Roe, North
Medbh McGuckian's second collection describes, and inscribes in alluring
art, the encounter and conflict of codes and symbols which represent
the male and female principles.
Invoking Keats and Wallace Stephens, Jon Cook reckoned in The New Statesman,
'The subject is realised in a way that is complex, richly textured
and differentiated. It can be a matter of restoring mythic voices
. . . or it's to do with a knowledge won from experience and given
direct and eloquent utterance . . . The book as a whole gives notice
of a considerable achievement in the making.'
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