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  • An Origin Like Water

    by Eavan Boland ...
    "Readers of this work will recognize and relish the way this collection charts a life's course."--Publishers WeeklyHere, from one of our major poets, is the collected early work that has been long unavailable in this country. Included in this volume is the work from Eavan Boland's five early volumes of poetry: New Territory, The War Horse, In Her Own Image, Night Feed, and The Journey.The poems ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Selected Poems: Charlotte Mew

    by Charlotte Mew ...
    In her tragically short life, Charlotte Mew produced poetry that was intense, emotional, original, and praised by her contemporaries Dylan Thomas, Ezra Pound, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf. Gathered together by Ireland's most distinguished modern female poet, this collection includes a diverse range of her work, dealing with pain, love, and feminist themes. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Journey with Two Maps

    Becoming a Woman Poet

    by Eavan Boland ...
    “Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”—Publishers Weekly, starred reviewThese 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 ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Historians

    Poems

    by Eavan Boland ...
    **Winner of the 2020 Costa Poetry AwardA forceful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century.**Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, acclaimed poet Eavan Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Memorial: A Version of Homer's Iliad

    A Version of Homer's Iliad

    by Alice Oswald, Eavan Boland ...
    “The most remarkable and affecting book of poetry I encountered this year.”—James Wood, The New YorkerIn this daring new work, the poet Alice Oswald strips away the narrative of the Iliad—the anger of Achilles, the story of Helen—in favor of attending to its atmospheres: the extended similes that bring so much of the natural order into the poem and the corresponding litany of the war-dead, most of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Object Lessons

    by Eavan Boland ...
    In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work.Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Citizen Poet

    New and Selected Essays

    by Eavan Boland ...
    A landmark volume of essays from “Ireland’s leading feminist poet” (New York Times Book Review) that celebrates a transformative vision of womanhood, nation, and poetry.Eavan Boland was a trailblazing poet, critic, teacher, and essayist. Carving a path for the next generation, she broke open the male-dominated canon of Irish literature and mapped her poetic journey through the contours of life as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Woman Without a Country

    Poems

    by Eavan Boland ...
    A powerful work that examines how—even without country or settled identity—a legacy of love can endure.Eavan Boland is considered “one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century” by Poetry Review. This stunning new collection, A Woman Without a Country, looks at how we construct one another and how nationhood and history can weave through, reflect, and define the life of an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • After Every War

    Twentieth-Century Women Poets

    by Eavan Boland ...
    Series series Facing Pages
    They are nine women with much in common—all German speaking, all poets, all personal witnesses to the horror and devastation that was World War II. Yet, in this deeply moving collection, each provides a singularly personal glimpse into the effects of war on language, place, poetry, and womanhood.After Every War is a book of translations of women poets living in Europe in the decades before and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Outside History

    Selected Poems, 1980-1990

    by Eavan Boland ...
    An essential volume by one of our most esteemed poets."[Boland is] an original, dazzlingly gifted writer.... Uncompromising intellect, wry perception, and verbal brilliance.... A wonderfully elegant and sensual writer, keenly attuned to the pleasures of form and sound.... She's as musically gifted and as uncompromisingly intelligent as Seamus Heaney, and deserves comparable attention." —David ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • A Poet's Dublin

    by Eavan Boland ...
    Juxtaposing verse and image, A Poet’s Dublin is a study of origin and influence from “a major Irish poet” (Edward Hirsch).Written over years, the transcendent and moving poems in A Poet’s Dublin seek out shadows and impressions of a powerful, historic city, studying how it forms and alters language, memory, and selfhood. The poems range from an evocation of the neighborhoods under the hills where ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • To the Lighthouse

    A special edition based on the first edition from the Hogarth Press

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    WITH INTROUCTIONS BY EAVAN BOLAND AND MAUD ELLMANThe serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse Virginia Woolf constructs a remarkable and moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life. One ... Read more

    $9.89 USD