Eavan Boland: Poems with Classical referents

Poet:    Eavan Boland

(Page numbers given refer to New Collected Poems [NCP]: Carcanet, 2005)

 

NCP page nos

New Territory

Allen Figgis, 1967

 

The Gryphons

 

7

Athene's Song

 

23

The War Horse

Gollancz, 1975

 

O Fons Bandusiae

 

55

The Greek Experience

 

61

Night Feed

Carcanet, 1980

 

Tirade for the Epic Muse

 

112
'Daphne with her thighs in bark'   115

The Journey

Carcanet, 1987

 
The Bottle Garden

 

137

The Journey

 

147

Outside History

Carcanet, 1990

 

The Latin Lesson

 

172

A False Spring

 

177

The Making of an Irish Goddess

 

178

Daphne Heard with Horror the Addresses of God

 

181

In a Time of Violence

Carcanet, 1990

Love

 

213

The Pomegranate

 

215

In Which the Ancient History I Learn is Not My Own

 

222

The Lost Land

Carcanet 1998

 

Unheroic

 

251

The Blossom

 

262

Daughter

 

263

Ceres Looks at the Morning

 

265

Formal feeling

 

274

Code

Carcanet, 2001

  
Horace Odes: ll:XI

 

 300
Irish Poetry

 

 307

Damiana

 

251

Domestic Violence

Carcanet, 2007

 

Silenced

 

Not included in NCP

To Memory

 

Not included in NCP

Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet

 

Not included in NCP