Eavan Boland’s writing life as a poet can be understood as an ascending arc of accomplishments, from her first book,

(1967), described by Derek Mahon as “a startling poetic debut”, through her

(2005), which Anne Fogarty praised as “a timely reminder of the significance and innovatory force of Boland’s achievement” (Campbell and O’Mahony, 19). Elaine Feinstein articulated a critical consensus in calling Boland “one of the finest poets of the last half century”, when the

was published, while Fiona Simpson identified

(2007), Boland’s tenth full collection, published separately but written concurrently with the newest poems of the

, as a book that “shows us once again the rare…

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