Imbolg

Time plays a major role in Imbolg, Máighréad Medbh’s eighth book of poetry. Change & choice with their shadows, doubt & fear inhabit the book in differing forms, but sensual pleasure is always in the frame with an abiding element of play. Her ‘Lockdown Diary’, from March /April 2020, encompasses 50 days of meditations on the first Covid-19 lockdown

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Time plays a major role in Imbolg, Máighréad Medbh’s eighth book of poetry, which explores a period of gestation, culminating in attempted personal change. Over the fifty days of her lockdown diary, written during March and April 2020, her feet walk around a quiet housing estate, past empty buildings and a closed-down society. Change, doubt, and fear inhabit the book in differing forms, but sensual pleasure is always in the frame, and an abiding element of play.