New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland - Softcover

Eavan Boland

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847772412 ISBN 13: 9781847772411

Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd., 2013

Synopsis

New Selected Poems includes the key poems from Eavan Boland's remarkable half century of writing. It began with 23 Poems in 1962 and it has continued through more than a dozen collections, each finding new dimensions in language, history and in the body subject to passion and to time. She is indeed, as Elaine Feinstein described her in Poetry Review , 'one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half-century'. Her critical writing, her poetry and example have made an emancipating difference to writing in Ireland. She remarked in an interview in 2000, 'women are now writing the Irish poem across a very big register of new tones, new subjects, new approaches [...], I think I was one of the poets who became convinced of the need for change.'

About this title

About the Author

Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944, and 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 Melvin and Bill Lane Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, California. Her previous works include The Journey and other poems (1987), Night Feed (1994), The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001).

Review

'She has the equipment of the true poet, that is to say an imagemaking faculty, a true devoted eye and an ear for rhythm.' --Iain Crichton Smith 'Boland is one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half-century.' --Elaine Feinstein 'Some of [Boland's] poems have become part of the common currency of our country and time. They begin as words and end as emblems.' --Irish Times 'Over all her 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd.
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1847772412
• ISBN 13: 9781847772411
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 256