Product Description: “Boland offers encouragement to women poets of the future. . . . Her vivid imagery will beguile many.”―Publishers Weekly, starred review These 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...read more

An expansive, celebratory collection from “one of the finest and boldest poets of the last half century” (Poetry Review).An Origin Like Water: Poems 1967–1987 confirmed Eavan Boland’s place at the forefront of modern Irish poetry. New Collected Poems now brings the record of her achievement up to date, adding material from her subsequent volumes and filling out key poems from the early years. Following the chronology of publication, the reader experiences the exhilarating sense of development, now incremental, now momentous. Boland’s work traces a measured process of emancipation from conventions and stereotypes, writing now in a space she has cleared not by violent rejection, but by dialogue, critical engagement, and patient experimentation with form, theme, and language.

Product Description: Poet John Hollander has divided the poems into tales, sonnets, songs, meditations and counsels. Published in partnership with The Academy of American Poets.

“A poet at the peak of her power . . . one of Ireland’s greatest, and among the best writing in English anywhere.”―Booklist These are poems about the charged spaces in which people live, about the interiors where seductions, quarrels, memories, and griefs occur. A marriage is a window for outward violence; a painted cup becomes a theater for a long love; in an ordinary room a mythic violation takes place.

Product Description: 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

A collection of poems that turns to the domestic interiors in which the dramas of women's lives are played out: seductions and quarrels, anger and grief, the care of children. It pays attention to the humdrum realities of suburban life, attempting to make them luminous with the power of live myths.

'Drawing on sources such as the land, the Church, the past, changing politics, and literary styles, Irish writers ranging from W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Augusta Gregory to Roddy Doyle, Kate O'Brien, Colm Toibin, John Banville, and Seamus Heaney explore what it means to be a writer in Ireland'--Provided by publisher.

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 after World War II: Rose Ausländer, Elisabeth Langgässer, Nelly Sachs, Gertrud Kolmar, Else Lasker-Schüler, Ingeborg Bachmann, Marie Luise Kaschnitz, Dagmar Nick, and Hilde Domin. Several of the writers are Jewish and, therefore, also witnesses and participants in one of the darkest occasions of human cruelty, the Holocaust. Their poems, as well as those of the other writers, provide a unique biography of the time--but with a difference. These poets see public events through the lens of deep private losses. They chart the small occasions, the bittersweet family ties, the fruit dish on a table, the lost soul arriving at a railway station; in other words, the sheer ordinariness through which cataclysm is experienced, and by which life is cruelly shattered. They reclaim these moments and draw the reader into them. The poems are translated and introduced, with biographical notes on the authors, by renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland. Her interest in the topic is not abstract. As an Irish woman, she has observed the heartbreaking effects of violence on her own country. Her experience has drawn her closer to these nine poets, enabling her to render into English the beautiful, ruminative quality of their work and to present their poems for what they are: documentaries of resilience--of language, of music, and of the human spirit--in the hardest of times.

Presents an exploration of what it means to be a writer and a woman in contemporary society.

Product Description: The enormous talent of celebrated Irish Padraic Fallon is demonstrated in this volume, which includes early poems (1930–1945), poems of maturity (1946–1959), late poems (1960–1974), and poems from plays, translations, and versions of Homeric Hymns and Ballads...read more

Product Description: In this radical anthology, the work of three of Ireland's most important and best-loved contemporary poets is featured. Each has, in a different way, cleared new creative space from which to speak and to sing. The anthology comprises an essential selection of some 40 pages from the work of the poets...read more

Product Description: A collection of poems about marriage by one of our most celebrated poets. These powerful poems are written against the perfections and idealizations of traditional love poetry. The man and woman in these poems are husband and wife, custodians of ordinary, aging human love...read more

Provides a detailed explanation of the different forms of poetry--sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina--and explains the origin, traces their history, and provides examples for each form.

Harriet Levin is a wonderfully courageous and exacting poet. . . . [Her] poems will attract many readers. —from the Introduction by Eavan BolandBeginning with the stunning title poem about her younger sister's brutal rape, Harriet Levin juxtaposes the ordinary with the terrible in this powerful collection.

An Irish poet with an international following unites personal history with national legend in a collection of powerful poems set in a ghostly terrain somewhere between earthly existence and the land of dreams. Reprint.

An Irish poet with an international following unites personal history with national legend in a collection of powerful poems set in a ghostly terrain somewhere between earthly existence and the land of dreams. (view table of contents)

The author recounts her life growing up in Ireland, describes the attitudes toward women and poets, and discusses her career as a writer

Gathers selections from the poet's first five books that illuminate the tensions between literary and suburban lives as well as the entanglement of language, being, and substance

Product Description: This collection by twelve Irish women writers, thinkers and activists contains the following: 'Pornography: The New Terrorism' by Clodagh Corcoran; 'A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition' by Eavan Boland; 'Has The Red Flag Fallen? The Fate of Socialisms in the 1990s' by Helena Sheehan; 'The Politics of Seduction' by Trudy Hayes; 'Ancient Wars: Sex and Sexuality' by Ethna Viney; 'The Right to Choose: Questions of Feminist Morality' by Ruth Riddick; 'Ireland Between the First and Third World' by Carol Coulter; 'From Cathleen to Anorexia: The Breakdown of Ireland's' by Edna Longley; 'Sex and Nation: Women in Irish Culture and Politics' by Gerardine Meaney; 'Glass Slippers and Tough Bargains: Women, Men and Power' by Maureen Gaffney; 'The Missing Sex: Putting Women into Irish History' by Margaret Ward; 'Repulsing Racism: Reflections on Racism and the Irish' by Gretchen Fitzgerald...read more