Member Profile: Eavan Boland
30 May 2018Eavan Boland, one of Ireland's finest poets, was admitted as an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 25 May 2018.
From her first collection, New territory (1967), she has written some of the most memorable and significant poetry of our time, in works including Night feed (1982) and In a time of violence (1994).
She is currently a professor of Humanities and director of the Creative Writing Programme at Stanford University, where she has taught since 1996.
She is the also the author of books on the art of poetry (notably Object lessons, 1995), and a public intellectual.
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