A poet's Dublin / Eavan Boland ; edited by Paula Meehan and Jody Allen Randolph ; with photographs by Eavan Boland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boland, Eavan, author, photographer.

Contributor:

Meehan, Paula, editor.

Randolph, Jody Allen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dublin (Ireland)--Poetry.

Dublin (Ireland).

Dublin (Ireland)--Pictorial works.

Ireland--Dublin.

Genre:

Pictorial works.

Poetry.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xv, 158 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.

Contents:

I City of Shadows

'As Dusk Fell on the City' 1

Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet 3

Once in Dublin 5

Unheroic 7

The Huguenot Graveyard at the Heart of the City 11

City of Shadows 13

A False Spring 17

Tree of Life 21

Nationhood: Two Failed Sonnets 23

The Dolls Museum in Dublin 25

An Elegy for My Mother in which She Scarcely Appears 29

We were Neutral in the War 31

Heroic 37

Child of Our Time 39

Canaletto in the National Gallery of Ireland 41

II Gifts of the River

'I Begin with the Liffey ...' 45

The Scar 47

Anna Liffey 49

How the Dance Came to the City 61

The Harbour 63

The Long Evenings of their Leave-Takings 67

And Soul 69

The Proof That Plato Was Wrong 71

Escape 75

Cityscape 79

III Under these Hills

'Dundrum is an Anglicisation of a Gaelic Place Name...' 83

The War Horse 85

This Moment 89

Night Feed 91

The Pomegranate 93

The Mother Tongue 97

Witness 101

In Our Own Country 103

Making Money 105

What Love Intended 109

Once 113

A Marriage for the Millennium 115

Re-Reading Oliver Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village' in a Changed Ireland 119

Two Poets and a City: A Conversation, Eavan Boland and Paula Merhan 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780393285369

0393285367

OCLC:

937452564