Book description
Eavan Boland's first Collected Poems confirmed her place at the
forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems brings the
record of her achievement up to date, adding The Lost Land (1998) and
Code (2001) and reproducing all her earlier collections in their
entirety, together with two key poems from 23 Poems (1962) and an
excerpt from her unpublished 1971 play 'Femininity and Freedom'.
Following the chronology of publication, the reader experiences the
development of a poet writing in a space she has cleared by critical
engagement and experiment with form, theme and language.
Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland 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 Mabury Knapp Professor in the
Humanities at Stanford University, California. A pioneering figure in
Irish poetry, Boland's previous works include The Journey and other
poems (1987), Night Feed (1994), The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001).
Her poems and essays have appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker,
The Atlantic, Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She is a regular
reviewer for the Irish Times. She divides her time between California
and Dublin where she lives with her husband, the novelist Kevin Casey.
