Eavan Boland

Oct 15, 2024 | rte.ie | Eavan Boland

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Sep 29, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland is known as a poet of history, but she might’ve taken issue with that label. As she told The Believer in 2014, she was interested not in history but in the past. Boland—who died in 2020 at age 75—saw the former as the official narrative, telling the kind of stories that showed up not only in school textbooks in her native Ireland but also in the poetry of her contemporaries. These writings didn’t seem to reflect the private lives of ordinary people.

Mar 10, 2023 | poets.org | Jennifer Franklin |Eavan Boland |Victoria Chang |Cate Marvin

I glimpse the tulips every two seconds. They arrived late this year. Those who plantedThe bulbs must not have considered how theyWould look from here—red, paired with pink dogwood. Seven umbrellas float by; only oneInverts. Ammonia swathed on the machinesMakes this walk to nowhere less appealing. A police car patrols the next windowWhere a dingy white van remains parked. ItIs difficult to discern if it’s stillRaining.