
Eavan Boland's new book, her first since the Collected Poems, is in two parts.The opening sequence entitled 'Colony' explores the theme of Irish language and culture.This is followed by a collection of individual poems which open out from autobiography into a sense of larger...

A collection of poems which offer a curative gift of merciful vision to Ireland. The author's narrators wait more or less patiently in their difficult knowledge for the healing of their country's wounds.

In The Lost Land, Eavan Boland "is intensely engaged with the ancient bardic lineage of her homeland, giving her poems an ineluctable moral gravity. . . . Her poems offer a curative gift of merciful vision to a country blinded by its own blood and pain, as her narrators wait...