Night feed: Poems

by Eavan Boland

To mark the centenary of the National Maternity Hospital in Dublin, where Eavan Boland is writer in residence throughout 1994, Carcarnet are reissuing this book. These poems were first published in 1982, and are a commentary in the sensual and visionary world which opens out in the connection between language and motherhood, celebrating moments of great intensity.

Genres: Poetry, Ireland

Paperback

First published April 3, 2014

About the author

Born in Dublin in 1944, Eavan Boland studied in Ireland, London and New York. Her first book was published in 1967. She taught at Trinity College, University College Dublin, Bowdoin College, the University of Iowa, and Stanford University. A pioneering figure in Irish poetry, Boland's works include The Journey and other poems (1987), Night Feed (1994), The Lost Land (1998) and Code (2001). Her poems and essays appeared in magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Kenyon Review and American Poetry Review. She was a regular reviewer for the Irish Times. She was married to the novelist Kevin Casey.

Reviews

[Claudia Santos]

"We are defined by what we forget"

[Natalie]

I thought there were some really really lovely poems in the volume of Eavan Boland's poetry. Some very lovely ideas relating to parenthood.