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Eavan Boland

eavan boland’s most recent volume of poetry A Woman Without a Country is published this autumn by Carcanet Press and W.W. Norton. She is the Mabury Knapp Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University.

Eavan Boland's work featured in PN Review comprises three reports, 13 contributions of poetry, 20 articles, one interview, and 10 reviews, over a period of 32 years. Also available are seven reviews of Eavan Boland's work and two interviews with Eavan Boland.
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Further Reading
Subscribers only Reviewed by Stan Smith in PN Review 2 (1978) on Irish Poetry
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 41 (1985) Listen. This is the Noise of Myth
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 54 (1987) on Urdu Poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Naomi Mitchison
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 55 (1987) on Michael Longley and E. A. Markham
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 58 (1987) Response to Poetry Live
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 58 (1987) on Roy Fuller
Subscribers only Reviewed by Neil Powell in PN Review 60 (1988) on recent Irish poetry
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 61 (1988) on Grevel Lindop and Val Warner
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 62 (1988) on Peter Ackroyd
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 71 (1990) Outside History
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 71 (1990) on Richard Wilbur
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 75 (1990) Outside History
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 76 (1990) on Padraic Fallon
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 77 (1991) The Woman, The Place, The Poet
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 82 (1991) Time, Memory and Obsession
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 82 (1991) on Sylvia Plath
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 84 (1992) At the Glass Factory in Cavan Town
Article in PN Review 87 (1992) Broken Trust
Subscribers only Interviewed by Allen-Randolph Jody in PN Review 93 (1993) in Conversation with Eavan Boland
Subscribers only Review in PN Review 94 (1993) on Thom Gunn
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 96 (1994) 'Anna Liffey'
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 99 (1994) Poetry the Hard Way
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 100 (1994) Seven Poems
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 102 (1995) Gods Make their own Importance
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 114 (1997) Reading Adrienne Rich
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 118 (1997) The Erotics of History
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 118 (1997) Letter to a Young Woman Poet
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 121 (1998) A Lyric Voice at Bay
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 124 (1998) Colony
Subscribers only Reviewed by David C. Ward in PN Review 125 (1999) on Eavan Boland
Subscribers only Report in PN Review 127 (1999) Ted Hughes: A Reconciliation
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 127 (1999) A Stegner Anthology
Subscribers only Interviewed by Jody Allen Randolph in PN Review 133 (2000) in conversation with Eavan Boland
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 137 (2001) Irish Poetry
Subscribers only Reviewed by Ian Tromp in PN Review 137 (2001) on Eavan Boland and Mark Strand's The Making of a Poem
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 142 (2001) Two Worlds
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 150 (2003) Virtual Syntax, Actual Dreams
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 156 (2004) A Broken Connection
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 161 (2005) Six German women poets
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 171 (2006) A Stegner Anthology
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 174 (2007) Preface to Irish Writers on Irish Writing
Subscribers only Reviewed by David C. Ward in PN Review 178 (2007) on Eavan Boland
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 184 (2008) Islands Apart
Poetry Collection in PN Review 198 (2011) Re-Reading Oliver Goldsmith's 'Deserted Village'
Subscribers only Reviewed by Andrew Walls in PN Review 205 (2012) on Eavan Boland
Subscribers only Poetry Collection in PN Review 213 (2013) The Stegner Poetry Workshop at Stanford
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 214 (2013) The Poet's Total Involvement: Denise Levertov
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 220 (2014) A Woman Without a Country
Subscribers only Article in PN Review 220 (2014) A Woman Without a Country: A Detail
Subscribers only Reviewed by Kate Arthur in PN Review 257 (2021) The Historians
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