

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: New Selected Poems:  Medbh McGuckian in Conversation with Tara McEvoy
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: NB Doors open for this event at 6.30pm
Tickets: £5

For almost fifty years Medbh McGuckian’s poems have dazzled and beguiled discerning readers. They are neither descriptions nor reflections of experience but, rather, experiences in themselves.

 They are not locations of meaning, but instead sources of sustenance for the senses. New Selected Poems (1978-2022), drawing on seventeen individual collections from The Flower Master and Other Poems to The Thankless Paths to Freedom, foregrounds more explicitly feminine themes in — as Paul Muldoon has said — ‘one of our most alert and alluring poets’. 

Medbh McGuckian - a North Belfast native - will be in conversation with Tara McEvoy for a night you don't want to miss!

. . . a woman and a melon 
are both alike; nobody knows what's in them
until they are broke up.
— ‘The Character of the Dug Explained’

'But in all this she is herself. There is no one like McGuckian writing in the English language, and we should be grateful for her ornate and ambiguous presence. Too often, I have been asked, ‘But what does it all mean?’ You might as well ask what Charlie Parker ‘means’. He means music. McGuckian means poetry.
- Ciaran Carson, Verse
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/belfast/new-selected-poems-medbh-mcguckian-in-conversation-with-tara-mcevoy/200029448131633
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 4

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/thenorthbelfastfestival?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=belfast-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Belfast
- **state**: NI
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Clifton House, Belfast, BT15 1, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 54.6064
- **long**: -5.93298
- **full address**: Clifton House, Belfast, BT15 1, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Look North - North Belfast Festival (https://allevents.in/org/look-north-north-belfast-festival/19102000)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Clifton House, Belfast, BT15 1, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Look North - North Belfast Festival
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, fine-arts
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about New Selected Poems:  Medbh McGuckian in Conversation with Tara McEvoy ?
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