Tag: Eavan Boland
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“Dear Eavan” by C. Murray
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) Break the glass that holds morning’s flame. Proceed from your room— I have become so aware of my hands, their folding of things of too-sweet smelling fabrics (washing machine is crocked) their patting of panes, pain, counter-pane, administering drugs or massages to a dying cat— I chose not to believe your death. […]
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bind, a waking book by C. Murray
Originally posted on Poethead:
They and I, O how far we have fallen! Just to burn here. You can now order bind via Turas Press bind cover photograph is © Christian Caller, original artwork Bound / Boundless © Salma Ahmad Caller from the Irish Times I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without… -
bind; a waking book by C. Murray
They and I, O how far we have fallen! Just to burn here. You can now order bind via Turas Press bind cover photograph is © Christian Caller, original artwork Bound / Boundless © Salma Ahmad Caller from the Irish Times I am a poet without a landscape, a woman poet without a narrative heritage. I […]
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“Eavan Boland: Inside History” Edited by Nessa O’Mahony and Siobhan Campbell
The death of Eavan Boland (1944-2020) occurred on 27/04/2020 in Dublin, Ireland. Condolences to her family, friends, and colleagues. You can read a collation of tributes and obituaries to Eavan at this link. EAVAN BOLAND INSIDE HISTORY (Arlen House, 2016) Eavan Boland: Inside History, a new volume of essays and poems in response to the […]
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Four voices confront the absence of women in Irish poetry
I have endured the scholastic training worthy of someone of learning. I am versed in the twelve divisions of poetry and the traditional rules. I am so light and fleet I escape from a body of men without snapping a twig, without ruffling a braid of my hair, I run under branches as high […]
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2012 Poets and Poetry Sites
“ I wanted to read or hear the narrative of someone else – a woman and a poet – who has gone here and been there. Who had lifted the kettle to a gas-stove. Who had set her skirt out over a chair, near to the clothes dryer, to have it without creases for the […]
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‘I have come to ask certain disrespectful questions of the tradition’; Boland on poetry’s ‘lesser-space’
‘I am an Irish poet. A woman poet. In the first category I enter the tradition of the English language at an angle. In the second, I enter my own tradition at an even more steep angle. I need to be candid about this because, of course, these two identities shape and re-shape what I have […]
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“Sonnet” by Alice Oswald
Sonnet I can’t sleep in case a few things you said no longer apply. The matter’s endless, but definitions alter what’s ahead and you and words are like a hare and tortoise. Aaaagh there’s no description — each a fractal sectioned by silences, we have our own skins to feel through and fall back through […]
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A link to a VIDA conversation with poet Jane Hirshfield.
“I discovered sexism’s glass walls—which do exist still, to a shocking degree—later rather than earlier. A great blessing, that belatedness. As a young person, I felt the world’s heritage of art and literature was mine to forage.” (Jane Hirshfield) This week’s blog post contains just two small links because family duties had called me away from my […]
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A Saturday Woman Poet, Mona Van Duyn.
The Mona Van Duyn Poem that I am adding today is from The Making of a Sonnet, edited by Edward Hirsch and Eavan Boland. I will be adding in here a link to an online page of Van Duyn poety from Modern American Poets the Amazon Link to her collected poems and a Wikipedia page about the poet. A selection of […]
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