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New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland
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Description for New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland
Paperback. New and selected poems by Ireland's most acclaimed contemporary female poet. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
New Selected Poems includes the key poems of Eavan Boland's career to date, from New Territory (1967) to Domestic Violence (2007), concluding with a selection of new poems. Developing her work through more than a dozen collections, Boland continues to find new dimensions in language, in history and in the body subject to passion and to time. Her critical writing, her poetry and her example have made an emancipating difference to writing in Ireland. As 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 ... Read more
New Selected Poems includes the key poems of Eavan Boland's career to date, from New Territory (1967) to Domestic Violence (2007), concluding with a selection of new poems. Developing her work through more than a dozen collections, Boland continues to find new dimensions in language, in history and in the body subject to passion and to time. Her critical writing, her poetry and her example have made an emancipating difference to writing in Ireland. As 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847772411
SKU
V9781847772411
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About Eavan Boland
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 ... Read more
Reviews for New Selected Poems: Eavan Boland
'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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more