Publisher's Synopsis
To mark the centenary of the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, where Eavan Boland is writer-in-residence throughout the year, Carcanet are re-issuing Night Feed. These poems were first published in 1982 and are a commentary on the sensual and visionary world which opens out in the link between language and motherhood, celebrating moments of great power and transience.
Carmel Benson provides a striking charcoal cover image.
Author royalties from this edition will go to the hospital.
