17/02/2026
The acclaimed poet, memoirist and critic Maureen N. McLane will visit UCC on Wednesday 18 February to give a reading, chaired by Liz Quirke.
Wednesday 18 February
6pm
Dora Allman Room
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Raised in upstate New York, Maureen N. McLane holds degrees from Harvard, Oxford, and the University of Chicago and teaches at NYU where she is Henry James Professor of English and American Letters.
Maureen McLane’s poetry collections, published by FSG in the US and Penguin in Ireland and the UK, include: Same Life (2008), World Enough (2010); This Blue (2014), (2016); Some Say (2017). Her Selected Poems have been published in 2019, 2021 and 2023 as What I’m Looking For, More Anon and What You Want.
The most recent book – part of an ongoing experimental hybrid of memoir and criticism – is My Poetics (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Charles Bernstein describes it as ‘a speculative ballad of clamorous voices approaching, yet averting, the sublime’.
Maureen McLane works at the conjunction of romanticism and/or now and her reading is part of a symposium entitled The Uses of Romanticism (for which no booking is needed).
