Citizen Poet

Eavan Boland (1944-2020) was born in Dublin, studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book appeared in 1967. She taught widely in Ireland and the United States. She was Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, a key figure for a generation of female and male writers, her Carcanet books include The Journey and other poems (1987), a Collected and a New Collected Poems. The Historians, her posthumous collection was awarded the Costa Prize in 2020.