New Selected Poems by Eavan Boland

New Selected Poems by Eavan Boland

New selected poems by Irelands most acclaimed contemporary female poet.

'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

Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book was published in 1967. She taught at Trinity College, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College in Maine, and at the University of Iowa. She was Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University, California. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, Boland's works include The Historians (2020), which won the Costa Poetry Award 2020 and was a 2020 Book of the Year in the TLS, Guardian, Sunday Independent and Irish Times, The Journey and other poems (1987), Night Feed (1982), The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001). Her poems and essays appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She was a regular reviewer for the Irish Times. She divided her time between California and Dublin where she lived with her husband, the novelist Kevin Casey. Eavan died in Dublin on 27th April 2020.

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ISBN 13	9781847772411
ISBN 10	1847772412
Titel	New Selected Poems
Autor	Eavan Boland
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Carcanet Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr	2013-10-31
Seitenanzahl	160
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