Shauna Lawson talks to Máighréad Medbh, a poet with nine published books, known for her compelling performances and long-form sequences. Her work has been widely recognised. She discusses her early days moving to Belfast in the early nineties working with NVTV and publishing her first collection of poetry in 1990 and up to the present with the publication of Dwelling a work centred on the author’s great-grandmother and a photograph with her erased face. The book explores the symptoms of colonisation across time, with a focus on the present sufferings in Palestine.