Eavan Boland’s writing life as a poet can be understood as an ascending arc of accomplishments, from her first book,
New Territory(1967), described by Derek Mahon as “a startling poetic debut”, through her
New Collected Poems(2005), which Anne Fogarty praised as “a timely reminder of the significance and innovatory force of Boland’s achievement” (Campbell and O’Mahony, 19). Elaine Feinstein articulated a critical consensus in calling Boland “one of the finest poets of the last half century”, when the
New Collected Poemswas published, while Fiona Simpson identified
Domestic Violence(2007), Boland’s tenth full collection, published separately but written concurrently with the newest poems of the
New Collected Poems, as a book that “shows us once again the rare…
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