My new prose work, Savage Solitude, is now available for purchase. The book explores the state of being alone, its pain, its absences and presences. Read more.

I’ve had five collections of poetry published, and a CD. Their titles are here, and three are available to buy. I’ve also written four works of fiction, which are as yet unpublished. Excerpts can be viewed via this page.

I’m known as a performance poet, which means that I deliver my poetry by recitation and somewhat dramatically, but to me it also means that composition is generally organic, focused on getting form to echo sense. That’s not new in poetry, but I’ve made it a touchstone. Then, when I deliver the poems aurally, I want to live in them as an extension of my physical awareness, which is, according to embodied mind theories, indistinguishable from mind.

My three-volume story for children, The Jimmy Meridian Story, is about the power and effects of thought, and is an elaborate fantasy/fable. The Thirteenth Cone is of a similar sort, though more intense and for an older audience.

My work is always to some extent investigative and research-based, and there’s more to follow the mode of Savage Solitude.

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Máighréad Medbh