"I have put this book together, not as a prose narrative is usually constructed, but as a poem might be: in turnings and returnings. In parts which find and repeat themselves and re-state the argument until it loses its reasonable edge and hopefully...

"Outside History" was Eavan Boland's first collection of new poems since "The Journey" (1987). Here she explores private themes, but in ways which open out on the wider public sphere. Often the poems arise from the place in which womanhood and natio...