Eavan Boland

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Eavan Boland (born 24 September 1944 in Dublin) is an Irish poet.

Contents

  • 1 Family and Early Life
  • 2 Publications
    • 2.1 Forthcoming[citation needed]
  • 3 External links

Family and Early Life

Boland's father, Frederick Boland was a career diplomat and her mother,Frances Kelly, was a noted post-expressionist painter.

She was educated in London and New York as well as in her native Dublin; she graduated from Trinity College with a first class honors degree in English Literature. In 2004 she received an honorary degree from Trinity.

Eavan Boland's first book of poetry was "New Territory" published in 1967 with Dublin publisher Allen Figgis. This was followed by "The War Horse" (1975), In Her Own Image (1980) and Night Feed (1982), which established her reputation as a writer on the ordinary lives of women and on the difficulties faced by women poets in a male-dominated literary world.

Boland's publications also include: An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987 (1996), Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990 (1990), and a prose memoir Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (1995). Her collection In a Time of Violence (1994) received a Lannan Award and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize. All of her volumes of poetry have been Poetry Book Society Choices in the UK.In the United States her publisher is W.W.Norton. Her volume of poems "Against Love Poetry" (W.W. Norton 2001) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

She is co-editor of The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (with Mark Strand; W. W. Norton & Co., 2000). She also published a volume of translations in 2004 called After Every War (Princeton University Press). The translations are of German-speaking women poets.

Boland has taught at a number of universities, including Trinity College, Dublin. She was also writer in residence at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the National Maternity Hospital.

She is currently Bella Mabury and Eloise Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Melvin and Bill Lane Professor for Director of the Creative Writing program there.

She is married to author Kevin Casey; they have two daughters.

Publications

  • New Territory The War Horse (Gollancz, 1975)
  • In Her Own Image (Arlen House: Dublin 1980)
  • Night Feed (Arlen House: Dublin 1982)
  • The Journey, and Other Poems (Carcanet Press, 1986)
  • Outside History: Selected Poems 1980-1990 (W.W. Norton, 1990)
  • In a Time of Violence (W.W. Norton, 1994)
  • Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (W.W. Norton, 1995)
  • Collected Poems (Carcanet Press: 1995)
  • An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-1987 (W.W. Norton, 1996)
  • The Lost Land (W.W. Norton & Co: 1998)(Carcanet Press)[citation needed]
  • The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (with Mark Strand; W. W. Norton, 2000).
  • After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets (Princeton University Press, 2004)
  • New Collected Poems (Carcanet Press: UK 2006)
  • Domestic Violence (W.W. Norton, 2007) (Carcanet Press)

Forthcoming[citation needed]

  • The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology (co-editor Edward Hirsch) (W.W. Norton, 2007)
  • Eavan Boland at Carcanet Press website U.K.
  • AP College Board pdf on Eavan Boland
  • Eavan Boland essay on Denise Levertov
  • Essay on Science of Cartography by Eavan Boland
  • Eavan Boland reading Science of Cartography
  • Eavan Boland at Academy of American Poets
  • Interview at Academy of American Poets
  • An interview with Alice Quinn in New Yorker Online
  • An Interview with Jody Allen-Randolph
  • Jonathan King Lecture Stanford Hospital
  • An Interview at Caffeine Destiny
  • Some poems by Eavan Boland
  • Eavan Boland at Irish Writers Online
  • Emigrant Irish at Favorite Poem website
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