Obituaries and tributes to Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
A collation of national and international coverage of the death of Eavan Boland (1944-2020).
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“Because of the rearrangements and the innovations of the recent past, a woman in Ireland who wishes to inscribe her life in a poem has a better chance now to move freely around within that poem.” (Eavan Boland)
Where the Poet Stood: Eavan Boland and the power of Perspective, Alexandra Teague for The Poetry Foundation 11th of September 2020
Article URL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2020/09/where-the-poet-stood-eavan-boland-and-the-power-of-perspective
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Editorial PN Review 254, Volume 46 Number 6, July - August 2020 by Michael Schmidt
On 27 April I wrote to friends and colleagues. ‘You may have heard that Eavan Boland died today in Dublin of a stroke. She was seventy-five. It is an enormous loss for Irish poetry and Irish literature more widely. It is also a loss for PN Review and Carcanet. Eavan has contributed some of the best poems we have published to the magazine; she has suggested we consider many key poets down the years, new and old. Just last week we resolved the contract for her new, and now her last, book.’
Robyn Marsack, fresh from editing Fifty Fifty: Carcanet’s Jubilee in Letters, noted how, ‘when I was looking through the archives, I saw that correspondence about her own work was brief, but about others she wrote with feeling and generosity. Her advocacy and example have been so important to Irish literary culture and to ours at PNR and Carcanet.’
PNR Volume 46 Number 6, July - August 2020 by Michael Schmidt
Article URL: https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=10778
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Irish Times: Eavan Boland obituary. Outstanding Irish poet and academic
Boland Broke the mould of Irish poetry by making women's experiences central to her poems
Irish Times (Saturday, May 2nd, 2020)
Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/eavan-boland-obituary-outstanding-irish-poet-and-academic-1.4242681
Eavan Boland (1944-2020)
Where the Poet Stood: Eavan Boland and the Power of Perspective, Alexandra Teague for The Poetry Foundation, 11th of September 2020
Article URL: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2020/09/where-the-poet-stood-eavan-boland-and-the-power-of-perspective
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PNR Volume 46 Number 6, July - August 2020 by Michael Schmidt
Article URL: https://www.pnreview.co.uk/cgi-bin/scribe?item_id=10778
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'Disruptive Irish Poet, is dead at 75
The New York Times (28/04/2020)
Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/28/books/eavan-boland-dead.html (Online)
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Eavan Boland, Pillar of Irish poetry (1944-2020)
She helped redefine the literary canon to include women's voices and those on the margins
by Margaret Spillane
The Nation (06/05/2020)
Article URL: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/eavan-boland-irish-poetry/
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Irish Times: Eavan Boland obituary. Outstanding Irish poet and academic
Boland Broke the mould of Irish poetry by making women's experiences central to her poems
Irish Times (Saturday, May 2nd, 2020)
Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/eavan-boland-obituary-outstanding-irish-poet-and-academic-1.4242681
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Eavan Boland, leading Irish poet and champion of the female voice, dies aged 75
Poet, who returned last month from teaching at Stanford University, suffered a stroke.
Irish Times (27/04/2020)
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Eavan Boland’s legacy is in her poems, but it is also in Irish life
Irish Times (27/04/2020)
Article URL: https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/eavan-boland-s-legacy-is-in-her-poems-but-it-is-also-in-irish-life-1.4239298
Eavan Boland, the Irish poet who did not heed authority in literature
Le Ortique (of the deformed canon)
Eavan Boland (1944-2020) è una delle più grandi poete d’Irlanda. Ricordarla significa ricordare quanto la storia della letteratura sia stata una storia di potere e soppressione a danno della scrittura delle donne. In Irlanda, è stata la prima a cominciare quel faticoso lavoro di ribellione e di smantellamento del canone letterario maschile; ed è grazie a lei se negli ultimi due decenni è stato possibile ricostruire e riesumare la letteratura irlandese delle donne, dall’800 ai giorni nostri. Erano i primi anni 60 quando pubblicò la sua prima raccolta di poesie, nella quale parla della sua esistenza come giovanissima moglie, madre e studentessa universitaria. Al Field Day al quale era stata invitata alla fine degli anni 80, attaccò scrittori e accademici che “dimenticarono” di includere le così numerose scrittrici irlandesi nella “Anthology of Irish writing”.
Article URL: Eavan Boland, la poeta irlandese che non ha ascoltato l’autorità in letteratura
Eavan Boland, Irish poet and Stanford professor, dies in her native Dublin
San Francisco Chronicle (04/05/2020)
Article URL: https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Eavan-Boland-Irish-poet-and-Stanford-English-15243906.php
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Eavan Boland Obituary, The Poetry Book Society
The Poetry Book Society (28/04/2020)
Article Url: https://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/blogs/news/eavan-boland
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Eavan Boland: poet whose focus on women's experiences redefined the scope of Irish literature
She drew on her country’s literary heritage while moving it in a new direction
Independent (19/05/2020)
Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/eavan-boland-death-poet-women-dublin-ireland-age-cause-a9500031.html
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Poet Eavan Boland dies age 75
RTE (27/05/2020)
Article URL: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0427/1135169-eavan-boland/
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Related links
"Testimony to a Flowering" by Catriona Crowe
The Dublin Review (2003)
Online URL: https://thedublinreview.com/article/testimony-to-a-flowering/
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Fired!
Preamble to the Pledge (2017)
Online URL: https://poethead.wordpress.com/fired-irish-women-poets-and-the-canon-preamble-to-the-pledge/
