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Poet:    Eavan Boland

 

Poems with Classical referents - listed by volume / title of poem.

(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

 

16

To Memory

 

35

Atlantis - A Lost Sonnet

 

47