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The Historians - Eavan Boland

The Historians

By: Eavan Boland

Paperback | 26 April 2021

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A 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. This, her final volume, is the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all but erased womens lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past. These extraordinary, intimate narratives cling to the future through memory, anger, and love in ways that rebuke the official record we call history.

Book Features:
  • New collection from a pioneering figure in Irish poetry, credited with inspiring a generation - her last collection prior to her passing in April 2020. </li
  • Three of her previous collections have been PBS Choices or Recommendations. </li
  • Her poetry is included on exam board syllabi throughout the UK and Ireland. </li
  • Boland returns to her signature themes of exploring the ways in which hidden and all-but erased stories of womens lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past.


About the Author

Eavan Boland was born in Dublin in 1944, and studied in Ireland, London and New York. She taught at Trinity College and University College Dublin, Bowdoin College and the University of Iowa. She was a professor and the director of the creative writing programme at Stanford University, California. She was the winner of a Lannan Foundation Award. She lived in Stanford, California and Dubin, Ireland. She passed away in April 2020.

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