Eavan Boland: A Poet's Dublin

Overview

Published to celebrate the 70th birthday of acclaimed Irish poet Eavan Boland, this book brings together many of Boland's best-known poems with her own striking photographs of her native city, Dublin. Through juxtaposition of text and image, place and memory, the book creates a unique portrait of the city. This book also includes an introduction by Jody Allen Randolph and a conversation between Eavan Boland and Paula Meehan in which the two poets reflect on their shared city and the central role it has played in their lives and in their work.

Author Biography

Eavan Boland is the Mabury Knapp Professor in the humanities at Stanford University. She is the author of Code, The Journey and Other Poems, A Journey with Two Maps, New Selected Poems, and Night Feed. Paula Meehan is a poet who has published five collections of poetry and received many awards for her work including the Denis Devlin Award of the Irish Arts Council for Dharmakaya. Jody Allen Randolph is a former Mellon Fellow in the Humanities at the University College-Dublin; a former assistant dean of British Studies at St. John's College, Oxford; and a former professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara, the University College-Dublin, and Westmont College in Santa Barbara. She is the author of Eavan Bolan: A Critical Companion. She lives in Santa Barbara, California.