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I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention
I was a foggy, erratic teenager: a fifth child, the last in the queue for conversation or attention
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Eavan Boland:
I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid pastEavan Boland:
I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnisEavan Boland:
I know now that I began writing in a country where the word 'woman' and the word 'poet' were almostEavan Boland:
At the age of seventeen, I left school. I went to university, and I wrote my first attempts at poetEavan Boland:
The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. AftEavan Boland:
In my thirties I found myself, to use a colloquial fiction, in a suburban house at the foothills ofEavan Boland:
During my twenties and thirties, my interest in the political poem increased as my apparent accessEavan Boland:
One of the things women poets have been engaged in - among the other things they've been doing - isEavan Boland:
I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored aEavan Boland:
As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women