Eavan Boland, poet
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Eavan Boland

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About Eavan Boland

1944 -/IrishEavan Boland (born 1944) is an Irish poet and feminist. Boland was born in Dublin. Her father was a career diplomat and she was educated in London and New York as well as in her native city, graduating from Trinity College. Her first books, In Her O

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Here is the city—its worn-down mountains,
— Eavan Boland
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—and not simply by the fact that this shading offorest cannot show the fragrance of balsam,
— Eavan Boland
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Poetry & Stories

  1. Anorexic

    Flesh is heretic.My body is a witch.

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  2. Quarantine

    In the worst hour of the worst seasonof the worst year of a whole people

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  3. That the Science of Cartography Is Limited

    —and not simply by the fact that this shading offorest cannot show the fragrance of balsam,

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  4. The Harbour

    This harbour was made by art and force.And called Kingstown and afterwards Dun Laoghaire.

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  5. Witness

    Here is the city—its worn-down mountains,

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