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A Woman Without a CountryEavan Boland![]()
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ISBN: 978 1 847774 74 3 Categories: 21st Century, Irish, Women Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Published: January 2014 Publisher: Carcanet Press Also available in: eBook (EPUB), Paperback Digital access available through Exact Editions Spend GBP 15 or more and receive a free Carcanet tote bag.
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He starts with the head, cutting in To the line of the cheek, finding The slope of the skull, incising The shape of a face that becomes A foundry of shadows... from ‘A Woman Without a Country’
The poems in Eavan Boland’s new collection consider questions of inheritance and identity, of what is handed down and what is lost. Boland's poems are acts of preservation: they are aware of the significance of objects, memories, words, in keeping alive what we would otherwise 'lose / without thinking'. At the same time, they are a holding to account, addressing the damage wrought by that other inheritance, the 'art of empire', the 'business ... of colony'. In the title sequence, Boland seeks to restore voice and place to those who, like her grandmother, lived and died 'outside history', skilled in ... silence'.
Awards won by Eavan Boland
Winner, 2017 Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award
Praise for Eavan Boland
'... a rich, unsettling moral adventure in memory and responsibility.'
Theo Dorgan Eavan Boland's A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet contains essays both personal and public written in a tone urgent and wise, with astute observations on her own trajectory as a poet and the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath and Paula Meehan, among others. Colm Toibin, The Irish Times, Our Favourite Books of 2011 |
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