'The Historians' by Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland’s beautiful, wise final collection of poems, The Historians, is a model of how to use language to think about what we are.
Read MoreEavan Boland’s beautiful, wise final collection of poems, The Historians, is a model of how to use language to think about what we are.
Read MoreThe unexpected news this afternoon of Eavan Boland’s passing felt just like hearing of Seamus Heaney’s death : a sharp, dismayed ‘Ah no. No.’ Losing great writers leaves us bereft, even if we didn’t know them personally. The words of a great poet with a long career like Boland or Heaney seep into us over decades. They become part of what we are.
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