Medbh McGuckian's first major collection, The Flower Master (1982), which explores post-natal breakdown, was awarded a Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, an Arts Council (Ireland) award (both 1982) and an Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (1983).
Medbh McGuckian's first major poetry collection, The Flower Master (1982), which explores post-natal issues, was awarded a Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, an Arts Council (Ireland) award in 1982, and the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize in 1983.