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New Collected PoemsEavan Boland10% off eBook (EPUB)
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Categories: 20th Century, 21st Century, Irish, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Jul 2012) 9781847779618 £14.95 £13.45 Paperback (280 pages) (Pub. Nov 2005) 9781857548587 £19.95 £17.95 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have and are not prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
O swan by swan my heart goes down
Through Dublin town, through Dublin town. from 'Liffeytown', 1962
Ten years ago Carcanet published Eavan Boland's first Collected Poems, a book which confirmed her place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. The New Collected Poems brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001). It also fills out the early record, reproducing two key poems from 23 Poems (1962), New Territory (1967), The War Horse (1975) and her later books; it includes passages from her unpublished 1971 play Femininity and Freedom. Following the chronology of publication, the reader experiences the exhilarating sense of development, now incremental, now momentous.
Her writing and example are vitally enabling for young writers and readers; she traces a measured process of emancipation from conventions and stereotypes, writing now in a space she has cleared not by violent rejection, but by dialogue, critical engagement and patient experimentation with form, theme and language.
Author's Note
from 23 Poems, 1962 Liffeytown The Liffey beyond Islandbridge New Territory, 1967 The Poets The Gryphons The Pilgrim New Territory Mirages Migration The Dream of Lir's Son Malediction Lullaby Belfast vs Dublin Requiem for a Personal Friend A Cynic at Kilmainham Gaol From the Painting Back from Market by Chardin Shakespeare The Comic Shakespeare Yeats in Civil War The Flight of the Earls After the Irish of Egan O'Rahilly The King and the Troubadour Athene's Song The Winning of Etain from 'Femininity and Freedom', 1971 'Deidre and Cathal in conversation' The War Horse, 1975 The Other Woman The War Horse Child of Our Time A Soldier's Son The Famine Road Cyclist with Cut Branches Song The Botanic Gardens Prisoners Ready for Flight Sisters The Laws of Love The Family Tree Naoise at Four Anon From the Irish of Pangur Ban Elegy for a Youth Changed to a Swan O Fons Bandusiae Dependence Day Conversation with an Inspector of Taxes The Atlantic Ocean Chorus of the Shadows The Greek Experience Suburban Woman Ode to Suburbia The Hanging Judge In Her Own Image, 1980 Tirade for the Mimic Muse In Her Own Image In His Own Image Anorexic Mastectomy Solitary Menses Witching Exhibitionist Making Up Night Feed, 1980 Domestic Interior Night Feed Before Spring Energies Hymn Partings Endings Fruit on a Straight-Sided Tray Lights After a Childhood Away from Ireland Monotony The Muse Mother A Ballad of Home Patchwork or the Poet's Craft In the Garden Degas's Laundresses Woman in Kitchen Woman Posing It's a Woman's World Tirade for the Epic Muse The New Pastoral On Renoir's The Grape Pickers 'Daphne with her thighs in bark' The Woman Changes Her Skin The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish The Woman in the Fur Shop The Woman as Mummy's Head A Ballad of Beauty and Time The Journey, 1987 I I Remember Mise Eire Self-Portrait on a Summer Evening The Oral Tradition Fever The Unlived Life Lace The Bottle Garden Suburban Woman: A Detail The Briar Rose The Women Nocturne The Fire in Our Neighbourhood On Holiday Growing Up There and Back The Wild Spray II The Journey Envoi III Listen. This is the Noise of Myth An Irish Childhood in England:1951 Fond Memory Canaletto in the National Gallery of Ireland The Emigrant Irish Tirade for the Lyric Muse The Woman takes her Revenge on the Moon The Glass King Outside History, 1990 I Object Lessons The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me The Rooms of Other Women Poets Object Lessons On the Gift of The Birds of America by John James Audubon The Game The Shadow Doll The River Mountain Time The Latin Lesson Bright-Cut Irish Silver We Were Neutral in the War II Outside History: A sequence I The Achill Woman II A False Spring III The Making of an Irish Goddess IV White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland V Daphne Heard with Horror the Addresses of the God VI The Photograph on My Father's Desk VII We Are Human History. We Are Not Natural History VIII An Old Steel Engraving IX In Exile X We Are Always Too Late XI What We Lost XII Outside History III Distances The Nights of Childhood The Carousel in the Park Contingencies Spring at the Edge of the Sonnet Our Origins Are in the Sea Midnight Flowers Doorstep Kisses A Different Light Hanging Curtains with an Abstract Pattern in a Child's Room Ghost Stories What Love Intended Distances In a Time of Violence, 1994 The Singers I Writing in a Time of Violence: A sequence 1 That the Science of Cartography is Limited 2 The Death of Reason 3 March 1 1847. By the First Post 4 In a Bad Light 5 The Dolls Museum in Dublin 6 Inscriptions 7 Beautiful Speech II Legends This Moment Love The Pomegranate At the Glass Factory in Cavan Town The Water-Clock Moths A Sparrow Hawk in the Suburbs In Which the Ancient History I Learn Is Not My Own The Huguenot Graveyard at the Heart of the City The Parcel Lava Cameo The Source Legends III Anna Liffey Anna Liffey Story Time and Violence The Art of Grief A Woman Painted on a Leaf The Lost Land, 1998 I Colony 1 My Country in Darkness 2 The Harbour 3 Witness 4 Daughters of Colony 5 Imago 6 The Scar 7 City of Shadows 8 Unheroic 9 The Colonists 10 A Dream of Colony 11 A Habitable Grief 12 The Mother Tongue II The Lost Land Home The Lost Land Mother Ireland The Blossom Daughter Ceres Looks at the Morning Tree of Life Escape Dublin, 1959 Watching Old Movies When They Were New Heroic Happiness The Last Discipline The Proof that Plato Was Wrong The Necessity for Irony Formal Feeling Whose? Code, 2001 I Marriage I In Which Hester Bateman, Eighteenth-Century English Silversmith, Takes an Irish Commission II Against Love Poetry III The Pinhole Camera IV Quarantine V Embers VI Then VII First Year VIII Once IX Thankëd be Fortune X A Marriage for the Millennium XI Lines for a Thirtieth Wedding Anniversary II Code Limits Code Making Money Exile! Exile! Once in Dublin How We Made a New Art on Old Ground Emigrant Letters The Burdens of a History Horace Odes: II:XI Echo Hide this Place from Angels Limits 2 How the Earth and All the Planets Were Created A Model Ship Made by Prisoners Long Ago Is It Still the Same Suburban Woman: Another Detail Irish Poetry Index of First Lines Index of Titles
Awards won by Eavan Boland
Winner, 2020 Costa Poetry Award
(The Historians) Winner, 2017 Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award
Praise for Eavan Boland
'Eavan Boland's essays are the work of an ever-generous, insightful and knowing cartographer. No one articulates the complexities, challenges and nuances of being an Irish female poet like she does in these original, arresting and trailblazing essays. Citizen Poet is a must-read for anyone interested in poetry, identity and the responsibilities of the artist.'
Victoria Kennefick 'Boland's essays remind us [...] of the change she helped bring about, which is nothing less than the redefinition and expansion of what Irish poetry â what any poetry â can be.' Heather Clark '...She has a dazzling gift for marrying the poem's narrative to its underlying considerations and themes, her carefully enacted restraint heightening the impact of the frequently stunning closing image.'
'The poems, all of them, have that familiar, spare, feel to them - the clarity of cold water, the measured cadence, the plain diction and the leaping insight so characteristic of her mature work - but there is grief here of a depth and of a kind that chills the heart... against the darkness that eddies and gathers in this, the last book we will have from her hand, there is indeed redemptive light'Maya C. Popa, Poetry Review Theo Dorgan, Dublin Review of Books 'This is a fitting tribute to a poet whose work has revised history as we know it and whose talent will be much missed.'
'The first poem in Boland's book, The Fire Gilder, is one of the best Irish poems of the past half-century.'Poetry Book Society Winter Bulletin Colm Tóibín, The Irish Times 'Truly consumable, enjoyable and emotive... all the things that great poetry should be.' Jasmine Reads, YouTube '[The Historians] zooms in with characteristic musicality and intelligence on what the stories that are often overlooked - those of women' Rishi Dastidar, The Guardian Poetry Books of the Year 2020 'It is, as came to be expected from Boland, filled with stories of ordinary Irish women, sensitively rendered in her understated verse. In revisiting the otherwise erased experiences of her subjects, Boland asks us to reconfigure our own understanding of the past, though she acknowledges the difficulties of that, too' The New Statesman 'There's a poignancy here that is hard to avoid... This modest collection is welcome and those who have not read Boland - few though they may be - will find here at least an introduction to her always-potent art. For others, it will serve as a coda to a poetic life well lived.' Books Ireland Magazine 'It feels, reading it in the wake of her death, to be unsettlingly prophetic, a fitting close to the life's work of a great poet' Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times '... 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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