Publisher's Synopsis
Eavan Boland confronts the challenges with which her situation, as an Irish poet and as a woman, presents her. Her writing and example are vitally enabling for young writers and readers; she 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. Collected Poems includes her early collections: New Territory, The War Horse and In Her Own Tongue, as well as her four Carcanet volumes.
Please note that Eavan Boland's New Collected Poems contains and expands on this volume.
