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Born in September 24, 1944 / Ireland / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • 23 Poems, Gallagher (Dublin, Ireland), 1962.
  • Autumn Essay, Gallagher (Dublin, Ireland), 1963.
  • New Territory, Allen Figgis & Co. (Dublin, Ireland), 1967.
  • The War Horse, Gollancz (London, England), 1975.
  • In Her Own Image, Arlen House (Dublin, Ireland), 1980.
  • Introducing Eavan Boland, Ontario Review Press (New York, NY), 1981.
  • Night Feed, M. Boyars (Boston, MA), 1982.
  • The Journey, Deerfield Press (Deerfield, MA), 1983.
  • The Journey and Other Poems, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 1987.
  • Selected Poems, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 1989.
  • Outside History: Selected Poems, 1980-1990, Norton (New York, NY), 1990.
  • In a Time of Violence, Norton (New York, NY), 1994.
  • A Dozen Lips, Attic Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1994.
  • A Christmas Chalice, State University of New York at Buffalo (Buffalo, NY), 1994.
  • Collected Poems, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 1995, published as An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems, 1967-1987, Norton (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Anna Liffey, Poetry Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), 1997.
  • The Lost Land, Norton (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Limitations, Center for the Book Arts (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Against Love Poetry, Norton (New York, NY), 2001.
  • Code, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2001.
  • New Collected Poems, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2005.
  • Domestic Violence, Norton (New York, NY), 2007.
  • New Collected Poems, Norton (New York, NY), 2008.

OTHER

  •  Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, Norton (New York, NY), 1995.
  • (Co-editor, with Mark Strand) The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Norton (New York, NY), 2000.
  • (Editor) Journey with Two Maps: An Anthology, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2002.
  • (Editor) Three Irish Poets: An Anthology: Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2003.
  • (Translator) After Every War: Twentieth-Century Women Poets, Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey), 2006.
  • (Editor) Irish Writers on Writing (The Writer’s World), Trinity University Press (San Antonio, Texas), 2007.
  • (Editor) The Selected Poems of Charlotte Mew, Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), 2008.
  • (Co-editor, with Ed Hirsch) The Making of a Sonnet: A Norton Anthology, Norton (New York, NY), 2008.

Work represented in anthologies, including The Observer Arvon Poetry Collection, Guardian Newspapers (London, England), 1994; Penguin Modern Poets, Penguin (London, England), 1995; To Persephone, Wesleyan University Press with the New England Foundation for the Arts (Hanover, NH), 1996; The Norton Anthology of Poetry, edited by Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, Norton, 1998; American’s Favorite Poems, edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz, Norton, 1999; The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by M. H. Abrams and Stephen Greenblatt, Norton, 1999; The Body Electric: America’s Best Poetry from the American Poetry Review, edited by Stephen Berg, David Bonanno, and Arthur Vogelsang, Norton, 2000; The Longman Anthology of Women’s Literature, edited by Mary K. Deshazer, Longman, 2000; The Norton Introduction to Literature, eighth edition, edited by J. Paul Hunter, Alison Booth, and Kelly J. Mays, Norton, 2001; and The Longman Anthology of British Literature: The Twentieth Cenbury, edited by David Damrosch, Addison-Wesley Longman, 2002; and Faber Anthology of Irish Verse, Penguin Anthology of Irish Verse, Pan Anthology of Irish Verse, and Sphere Anthology of Irish Verse.

OTHER

  • (With Michael MacLiammoir) W. B. Yeats and His World, Thames & Hudson (London, England), 1971, Thames & Hudson (New York, NY), 1986.
  • The Emigrant Irish, The British Council (London, England), 1986.
  • A Kind of Scar: The Woman Poet in a National Tradition, Attic Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1989.
  • (With Aileen MacKeogh and Brian P. Kennedy) House, Dublin Project (Dublin, Ireland), 1991.
  • Gods Make Their Own Importance: The Authority of the Poet in Our Time, Society Productions (London, England), 1994.
  • Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time, Norton (New York, NY), 1995.
  • (With Harriet Levin) The Christmas Show, Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1997.
  • (Editor, with John Hollander) Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize, Riverhead Books (New York, NY), 1997.
  • The Lost Land, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY), 1998.
  • (Editor, with Mark Strand) The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms, Norton (New York, NY), 2000.
  • (Editor, with J. D. McClatchy), Horace, the Odes, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 2002.

Regular contributor to Irish Times. Contributor to Irish Press, Spectator, American Poetry Review, and Soundings.