Author	Boland, Eavan
Title	New collected poems / Eavan Boland
Imprint	New York : W.W. Norton, 2008, c2005
Edition	1st American ed
Descript	320 pages ; 25 cm

Presents the collected poems of Irish poet Eavan Boland, featuring nine volumes published between 1967 and 2001, including two poems from the 1962 chapbook "23 Poems," and a section from an unpublished verse play

From 23 poems (1962): Liffeytown -- The Liffey beyond Islandbridge. New territory (1967): The poets -- The gryphons -- The pilgrim -- New territory -- Mirages -- Migration -- The dream of Lir's son -- Malediction -- Lullaby -- Belfast vs Dublin -- Requiem for a personal friend -- A cynic at Kilmainham gaol -- From the painting Back from market by Chardin -- Shakespeare -- The comic Shakespeare -- Yeats in civil war -- The flight of the earls -- After the Irish of Egan O'Rahilly -- The king and the troubadour -- Athene's song -- The winning of Etain. From "Femininity and freedom" (1971): "Deidre and Cathal in conversation". The war horse (1975): The other woman -- The war horse -- Child of our time -- A soldier's son -- The famine road -- Cyclist with cut branches -- Song -- The botanic gardens -- Prisoners -- Ready for flight -- Sisters -- The laws of love -- The family tree -- Naoise at four -- Anon -- From the Irish of Pangur Ban -- Elegy for a youth changed to a swan -- O fons bandusiae -- Dependence day -- Conversation with an inspector of taxes -- The Atlantic Ocean -- Chorus of the shadows -- The Greek experience -- Suburban woman -- Ode to suburbia -- The hanging judge. In her own image (1980): Tirade for the mimic muse -- In her own image -- In his own image -- Anorexic -- Mastectomy -- Solitary -- Menses -- Witching -- Exhibitionist -- Making up. Night feed (1980): Domestic interior -- Night feed -- Before spring -- Energies -- Hymn -- Partings -- Endings -- Fruit on a straight-sided tray -- Lights -- After a childhood away from Ireland -- Monotony -- The muse mother -- A ballad of home -- Patchwork or the poet's craft -- In the garden -- Degas's laundresses -- Woman in kitchen -- Woman posing -- It's a woman's world -- Tirade for the epic muse -- The new pastoral -- On Renoir's The grape pickers -- "Daphne with her thighs in bark" -- The woman changes her skin -- The woman turns herself into a fish -- The woman in the fur shop -- The woman as mummy's head -- A ballad of beauty and time. The journey (1987): Remember -- Mise Eire -- Self-portrait on a summer evening -- The oral tradition -- Fever -- The unlived life -- Lace -- The bottle garden -- Suburban woman: a detail -- The briar rose -- The women -- Nocturne -- The fire in our neighbourhood -- On holiday -- Growing up -- There and back -- The wild spray -- The journey -- Envoi -- Listen: this is the noise of myth -- An Irish childhood in England, 1951 -- Fond memory -- Canaletto in the national gallery of Ireland -- The emigrant Irish -- Tirade for the lyric muse -- The woman takes her revenge on the moon -- The glass king. Outside history (1990): Object lessons: The black lace fan my mother gave me -- The rooms of other women poets -- Object lessons -- On the gift of The birds of America by John James Audubon -- The game -- The shadow doll -- The river -- Mountain time -- The Latin lesson -- Bright-cut Irish silver -- We were neutral in the war ; Outside history: a sequence: -- The Achill woman -- A false spring -- The making of an Irish goddess -- White hawthorn in the west of Ireland -- Daphne heard with horror the addresses of the god -- The photograph on my father's desk -- We are human history, we are not natural history -- An old steel engraving -- In exile -- We are always too late -- What we lost -- Outside history ; Distances: The nights of childhood -- The carousel in the park -- Contingencies -- Spring at the edge of the sonnet -- Our origins are in the sea -- Midnight flowers -- Doorstep kisses -- A different light -- Hanging curtains with an abstract pattern in a child's room -- Ghost stories -- What love intended -- Distances. In a time of violence (1994): The singers -- Writing in a time of violence, a sequence: That the science of cartography is limited -- The death of reason -- March 1 1847, by the first post -- In a bad light -- The dolls museum in Dublin -- Inscriptions -- Writing in a time of violence ; Legends: This moment -- Love -- The pomegranate -- At the glass factory in Cavan Town -- The water-clock -- Moths -- A sparrow hawk in the suburbs -- In which the ancient history i learn is not my own -- The Huguenot graveyard at the heart of the city -- The parcel -- Lava cameo -- The source -- Legends ; Anna Liffey: Anna Liffey -- Story -- Time and violence -- The art of grief -- A woman painted on a leaf. The lost land (1998): Colony: My country in darkness -- The harbour -- Witness -- Daughters of colony -- Imago -- The scar -- City of shadows -- Unheroic -- The colonists -- A dream of colony -- A habitable grief -- The mother tongue ; The lost land: Home -- The lost land -- Mother Ireland -- The blossom -- Daughter -- Ceres looks at the morning -- Tree of life -- Escape -- Dublin, 1959 -- Watching old movies when they were new -- Heroic -- Happiness -- The last discipline -- The proof that Plato was wrong -- The necessity for irony -- Formal feeling -- Whose?. Against love poetry: Marriage: In which Hester Bateman, eighteenth-century English silversmith, takes an Irish commission -- Against love poetry -- The pinhole camera -- Quarantine -- Embers -- Then -- First year -- Once -- Thank่ed be fortune -- A marriage for the millennium -- Lines for a thirtieth wedding anniversary. Code: Limits -- Code -- Making money -- Exile! Exile! -- Once in Dublin -- How we made a new art on old ground -- Emigrant letters -- The burdens of a history -- Horace odes: ii:xi -- Echo -- Hide this place from angels -- Limits 2 -- How the earth and all the planets were created -- A model ship made by prisoners long ago -- Is it still the same -- Suburban woman: another detail -- Irish poetry

1. Ireland -- Poetry
2. Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
3. Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
4. Poetry.

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