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Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

Born: 24 September 1944 • Died: 27 April 2020

Eavan Boland was born in Dublin on September 24, 1944. Boland’s poetry collections include A Poet’s Dublin (Carcanet Press, 2014); A Woman Without a Country (W. W. Norton, 2014); New Collected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2008); An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967–1987 (W. W. Norton, 1996); and In Her Own Image (Arien House, 1980). Boland’s awards include a Lannan Foundation Award in Poetry, an American Ireland Fund Literary Award, a Jacob’s Award for her involvement in The Arts Programme broadcast on RTÉ Radio, and an honorary degree from Trinity College. She lived in California with her husband, the author Kevin Casey, and died on April 27, 2020. (Source)

Poems by Eavan Boland

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Once by Eavan Boland

“I do not want us to be immortal or unlucky. / To listen for our own death in the distance. / Take my hand. Stand by the window.” – Eavan Boland
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Anorexic by Eavan Boland

“Thin as a rib / I turn in sleep.” – Eavan Boland
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Atlantis — A Lost Sonnet by Eavan Boland

"what really happened is / this: the old fable-makers searched hard for a word" – Eavan Boland
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What Language Did by Eavan Boland

"We cannot sweat here. Our skin is icy. / We cannot breed here. Our wombs are empty. / Help us to escape youth and beauty." — Eavan Boland
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Quarantine by Eavan Boland

“But her feet were held against his breastbone. / The last heat of his flesh was his last gift to her.” — Eavan Boland
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This Moment by Eavan Boland

“A woman leans down to catch a child / who has run into her arms / this moment.” — Eavan Boland