![]() ![]() This is neither the time nor the place to offer an estimation of where her life’s work will come to rest in the long story of Irish poetry suffice it to offer, here, my personal conviction that the work will endure, that it has radically changed how we come to think of that story, and that both in influence and achievement her poetry and her commentary on that poetry have already altered forever the topography of what has been done and what can, should and will be done.Īs well to invoke the shades and vagaries of history at the outset, then, since her life’s work was concerned with what history includes and excludes, with writing herself as a woman poet into history, with recovering from the darkness of exclusion and neglect so many lives that have flared and died outside history. The Historians, by Eavan Boland, Carcanet, 80 pp, £10.99, ISBN: 978-1784109141Ī great life in poetry came to a close this year with the passing of Eavan Boland. ![]()
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