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Eavan Boland
Books by this author:
New Selected Poems
A Journey With Two Maps
Selected Poems (Ed.)
Eavan Boland Sourcebook
Domestic Violence
Object Lessons
New Collected Poems
Three Irish Poets (Ed.)
Code
The Lost Land
Collected Poems
Night Feed
In a Time of Violence
Outside History
The Journey and Other Poems
Selected Poems
Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book was published in 1967. She has taught at Trinity College, University College and Bowdoin College Dublin, and at the University of Iowa. She is currently Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, California. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, Boland's previous works include The Journey and other poems (1987), Night Feed (1994), The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001). Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She is a regular reviewer for the Irish Times. She divides her time between California and Dublin where she lives with her husband, the novelist Kevin Casey.
Praise for Eavan Boland
'Over eight collections, her developing forms and subjects - the fabric of domestic life, myth, love, history and Irish rural landscape - have kept their commitment to lyrical grace and feminism.'
Ruth Padel, The Independent on Sunday, January 2000. 'A skilled and celebrated poet.' 'Eavan Boland's critical status has burgeoned in the last ten years to the point where she is now one of the major figures in contemporary Irish and women's poetry.' 'This subtle, unadorned book is typical of Boland's powerfully persuasive manner as a poet.' 'The internationally acclaimed Irish poet powerfully and movingly continues to merge private and mythic history.' 'She's a poet of both painterly and worldly engagements, equally attentive to the dance of the intellect and the testimony of the senses.' 'Thoughtful, spare and elgant verse from one of Ireland's most significant poets.' 'A modern romantic with impressive intellectual resources, Boland fulfils her desire to "bless the ordinary...sanctify the common." Her poems have a rare artistic resonance.' 'She has the equipment of the true poet, that is to say an image-making faculty, a true devoted eye and an ear for rhythm.' 'Boland's gift is that she is always accessible, never elitist, but intelligent, striving and inclusive.' 'The wealth of Eavan Boland's language is complemented by a visual wealth in metaphors.' 'More than twenty years ago her voice was sweet and low and musical...now it has deepened in resonance and authority.' THE SUNDAY POEM:
Every week Ruth Padel discusses a contemporary poet through an example of their work. read more Classic: Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems edited and with an introduction by Eavan Boland "There is a sort of salt and spray about reading Mew for the first time," says Eavan Boland in her introduction. read more
Classic: Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems edited and with an introduction by Eavan Boland "There is a sort of salt and spray about reading Mew for the first time," says Eavan Boland in her introduction. read more
Classic: Charlotte Mew, Selected Poems edited and with an introduction by Eavan Boland "There is a sort of salt and spray about reading Mew for the first time," says Eavan Boland in her introduction. read more
No one has articulated the dilemmas of being a woman poet in Ireland with more poise than Eavan Boland. read more
Jay Parini, Poetry Review , Summer 2007
... read more Gerry Smith, The Irish Times
The Arts 2007 A new collection by one of our most accomplished poets and a distinctive voice in the contemporary canon. read more Fiona Sampson, Irish Times
Pre-eminent poet of experience Forty years after her first book, New Territory , was published, Eavan Boland's work continues to deepen in both humanity and complexity. read more Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, Poetry Ireland Review , issue 47
... read more Elaine Feinstein, Poetry Review Volume 96:3 Autumn 2006
Swept, Emptied, Kept
Boland is one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half-century. read more John Greening, Times Literary Supplement , 27th October 2006.
read more
Anne Fogarty, The Irish Book Review , Volume I Number III Winter 2005:
Books of collected poems fulfil several competing purposes. read more Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Times , 4th February, 2006:
Surviving the swans Evan Boland's latest collection illustrates how she managed to escape from the grip of tradition Reading Eavan Boland's powerful oeuvre in the New Collected Poems , one is immediately struck by the idea that persistent moral courage is a powerful technical advantage in a poet's work. read more John Redmond, The Guardian , Saturday 18th February 2006
In the heaven of lost futures John Redmond admires Eavan Boland's forlorn, regretful collection. read more Elaine Feinstein, Poetry Review Volume 96:3 Autumn 2006
Swept, Emptied, Kept
Boland is one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half-century. read more John Greening, Times Literary Supplement , 27th October 2006.
read more
Anne Fogarty, The Irish Book Review , Volume I Number III Winter 2005:
Books of collected poems fulfil several competing purposes. read more Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Times , 4th February, 2006:
Surviving the swans Evan Boland's latest collection illustrates how she managed to escape from the grip of tradition Reading Eavan Boland's powerful oeuvre in the New Collected Poems , one is immediately struck by the idea that persistent moral courage is a powerful technical advantage in a poet's work. read more John Redmond, The Guardian , Saturday 18th February 2006
In the heaven of lost futures John Redmond admires Eavan Boland's forlorn, regretful collection. read more Elaine Feinstein, Poetry Review Volume 96:3 Autumn 2006
Swept, Emptied, Kept
Boland is one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half-century. read more John Greening, Times Literary Supplement , 27th October 2006.
read more
Anne Fogarty, The Irish Book Review , Volume I Number III Winter 2005:
Books of collected poems fulfil several competing purposes. read more Thomas McCarthy, The Irish Times , 4th February, 2006:
Surviving the swans Evan Boland's latest collection illustrates how she managed to escape from the grip of tradition Reading Eavan Boland's powerful oeuvre in the New Collected Poems , one is immediately struck by the idea that persistent moral courage is a powerful technical advantage in a poet's work. read more John Redmond, The Guardian , Saturday 18th February 2006
In the heaven of lost futures John Redmond admires Eavan Boland's forlorn, regretful collection. read more Clair Wills, Times Literary Supplement , 1st February 2002
No longer islanded
Places evaporate, don't they?" read more Alan Brownjohn, The Sunday Times magazine, 18th November 2001
Bondi, bullocks and The Book of Kells
... read more Caroline Walsh
Literary Editor of The Irish Times
Code by Eavan Boland sees her returning to the mastery of the domestic that distinguished her early collections like Nightfeed , but having benefited from her explorations of history along the way. read more Vernon Scannell, The Sunday Telegraph , 25th November 2005
Poems without pretensions
Eavan Boland is an Irish poet (born in 1944) of a later generation than Kinsella's but there is little sign of Yeats having served as a model for her free, supple and inventive rhythms. read more Janet Montefiore, Times Literary Supplement , 10th December 1999
Dried in an Irish field
Eavan Boland's poetry circles around two obliquely related questions: how can one be an Irish woman poet writing in English? read more Ken Gladdish, Poetry Quarterly Review , Issue 14: Autumn 1999
A skilled and celebrated poet, Eavan Boland has followed her Collected Poems with this volume, whose subject is larely Ireland and its tragic past. read more The statues of O'Connell Street
BY MICHAEL GLOVER
Prufrock, ever hesitant, had to prepare to face to meet a face. read more |
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