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Product details
- ISBN 9781800171701
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 24 Sep 2024
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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At her death in 2020, Eavan Boland left a formidable body of work – poems and prose. Together they transformed Irish poetry and had a considerable influence throughout the English-speaking world. She was also a major essayist, whose potent non-fiction work challenged and changed Irish culture and society. This collection of her most important essays combines autobiographical and critical reflections on the events and influences that shaped her life and work. It includes work never before collected, as well as draft chapters of the memoir Daughter that she was working on when she died.
This wise, generous book, published on what would have been Eavan Boland's 80th birthday, tells the intertwined stories of her life and her writing, her work as a writer who was also a mother and a daughter, her sense of Ireland and exile, and her evolving insights into how the poet can earn, widen and share her freedoms. 'As time went on,' Jody Allen Randolph writes, 'Boland's prose grew clearer in focus and purpose; she argued that a poet's work is not just to write their poems, but also to contribute to the critique by which they will eventually be judged.'
This wise, generous book, published on what would have been Eavan Boland's 80th birthday, tells the intertwined stories of her life and her writing, her work as a writer who was also a mother and a daughter, her sense of Ireland and exile, and her evolving insights into how the poet can earn, widen and share her freedoms. 'As time went on,' Jody Allen Randolph writes, 'Boland's prose grew clearer in focus and purpose; she argued that a poet's work is not just to write their poems, but also to contribute to the critique by which they will eventually be judged.'
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was born in Dublin and studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book appeared in 1967. She taught widely in Ireland and the United States. She was Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, a key figure for a generation of female and male writers, her Carcanet books include The Journey and other poems (1987), a Collected and a New Collected Poems. The Historians, her posthumous collection, was awarded the Costa Prize in 2020.
Jody Allen Randolph has taught at University College Dublin; the British Studies at Oxford Programme at St. John's College, Oxford; and Westmont College. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.
Jody Allen Randolph has taught at University College Dublin; the British Studies at Oxford Programme at St. John's College, Oxford; and Westmont College. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.
