A Dozen Lips

by Eavan Boland, Margaret Ward

This collection by twelve Irish women writers, thinkers and activists contains the ' The New Terrorism' by Clodagh Corcoran; 'A Kind of The Woman Poet in a National Tradition' by Eavan Boland; 'Has The Red Flag Fallen? The Fate of Socialisms in the 1990s' by Helena Sheehan; 'The Politics of Seduction' by Trudy Hayes; 'Ancient Sex and Sexuality' by Ethna Viney; 'The Right to Questions of Feminist Morality' by Ruth Riddick; 'Ireland Between the First and Third World' by Carol Coulter; 'From Cathleen to The Breakdown of Ireland's' by Edna Longley; 'Sex and Women in Irish Culture and Politics' by Gerardine Meaney; 'Glass Slippers and Tough Women, Men and Power' by Maureen Gaffney; 'The Missing Putting Women into Irish History' by Margaret Ward; 'Repulsing Reflections on Racism and the Irish' by Gretchen Fitzgerald. ""A fitting and brave it's more Lip we want, indeed."" -- The Irish Times.

268 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

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.