Description
Through critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History reappraises Boland’s influence as a poet and critic for the twenty-first century. The fresh and diverse approaches in this volume, edited by poets Siobhan Campbell and Nessa O’Mahony, provide a new frame for a critical engagement which crosses continental and aesthetic boundaries. In reading the poetry of Boland anew, this volume re-positions Boland scholarship with a focus on the most important aspect: the work itself.
With a foreword by Mary Robinson, Eavan Boland consists of essays, poems and interviews by Jody Allen Randolph, Dermot Bolger, Patricia Boyle Haberstroh, Siobhan Campbell, Moya Cannon, Lucy Collins, Gerald Dawe, Péter Dolmányos, Katie Donovan, Thomas Kinsella, Michael Longley, Thomas McCarthy, Medbh McGuckian, Nigel McLoughlin, Paula Meehan, John Montague, Sinead Morrissey, Paul Muldoon, Christine Murray, Eileán Ni Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Jean O’Brien, Nessa O’Mahony, Gerard Smyth, Colm Tóibín and Eamonn Wall.
About the Author
Siobhan Campbell is on faculty at The Open University, Department of English. She is the author of several collections including Cross-Talk and That Water Speaks in Tongues and Heat Signature. She has won awards in the National and the Troubadour International Competition and recently was awarded the Oxford Brookes International Poetry Prize.
Nessa O’Mahony was born in Dublin in 1964. She completed a PhD in Creative Writing at Bangor University, North Wales, in 2006. She has published four volumes of poetry, the most recent being Her Father’s Daughter. She is the recipient of two artists’ bursaries from The Arts Council.
April 2017