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Citizen Poet: New and Selected Essays

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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.
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was born in Dublin, 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.
* Boland’s ground-breaking essays and interviews, first collected in Object Lessons (2006), are included and enhanced by essays and major later writings addressing the changing nature of poetry, the poet, and Ireland * Includes renowned essays ‘In Search of a Nation’, ‘In Search of a Language’, ‘Outside History’ and ‘The Woman Poet: her dilemma’ * Boland’s posthumous collection of poems, The Historians, won the Costa Poetry Award 2020 and was a 2020 Book of the Year in the TLS, Guardian, Sunday Independent and Irish Times * A great enabler of two generations of Irish poets drawn from the Republic and Northern Ireland, she also wrote some of the most iconic Irish poems of the last fifty years
'one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century' - Poetry Review
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