Böcker av Eavan Boland

New and selected poems by Ireland's most acclaimed contemporary female poet.

These inspiring essays from the celebrated poet Eavan Boland are both critical and deeply personal, revealing the adventure, passion, and struggle of becoming a woman poet. In this thematic sequel to her classic Object Lessons, Boland traces her own experiences as a woman, wife, and mother and their effect on her poetry, and she looks to a world where she can change the poetic past as well as the present.

An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967-1987 confirmed Eavan Boland's place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems now brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding material from her subsequent volumes and filling out key poems from the early years. Following the chronology of publication, the reader experiences the exhilarating sense of development, now incremental, now momentous. Boland's work 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.

These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a mythic violation takes place.

Boland's ground-breaking essays and interviews, first collected in Object Lessons (2006), are enhanced by essays and major later writings addressing the changing nature of poetry, the poet, and Ireland.

A new collection from Eavan Boland, a pioneering figure in Irish poetry who has been credited with inspiring a generation. This will be her final collection, following her passing in April 2020.

"Readers of this work will recognize and relish the way this collection charts a life's course."--Publishers Weekly

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book: a celebrated collection from "one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century" (Poetry Review).

Published to celebrate the seventieth birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city, Dublin.

The poems in this new collection, by arguably the most important living Irish woman poet, seek out the delicate intersections between generation, identity, and the deep losses inflicted by history on those who can bear them least.

This, her seventh book, continues to mine what she has termed "the meeting place between womanhood and history."

A collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets.

An exploration of concepts of art and womanhood, of what it means for Boland to be a woman poet, finding her own voice within a tradition.

A new and updated version of the 'Collected Poems of Eavan Boland', Ireland's pioneering premier female poet.

Presents an exploration of what it means to be a writer and a woman in contemporary society.