New Selected Poems

by Eavan Boland

  We Are Always Too Late 105

  We Are Human History. We Are Not Natural History. 102

  What Love Intended 112

  What We Lost 106

  White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland 99

  Whose? 172

  Wisdom 205

  Witness 153

  Woman in Kitchen 43

  Yeats in Civil War 6

  About the Author

  EAVAN BOLAND was born in Dublin. Her first book was published in 1967 and she has received numerous awards for her writing. She is Mabury Knapp Professor and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Stanford University. She divides her time between California and Dublin, where she lives with her husband, the novelist Kevin Casey.

  Also by Eavan Boland from Carcanet Press

  Poetry

  Night Feed

  The Journey

  Selected Poems

  Outside History

  In a Time of Violence

  The Lost Land

  Code

  New Collected Poems

  Domestic Violence

  Prose

  Object Lessons

  A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet

  As editor

  Charlotte Mew: Selected Poems

  Three Irish Poets: Eavan Boland, Paula Meehan, Mary O’Malley

  Carcanet also publish Eavan Boland: A Sourcebook, edited by

  Jody Allen Randolph

  Copyright

  Every effort has been made by the publisher to reproduce the formatting of the original print edition in electronic format. However, poem formatting may change according to reading device and font size.

  First published in Great Britain in 2013

  by Carcanet Press Ltd, Alliance House, 30 Cross Street, Manchester M2 7AQ

  This ebook edition first published in 2013

  All rights reserved

  Copyright © Eavan Boland 1967, 1975, 1980, 1982, 1987, 1990, 1994, 1998, 2001, 2007, 2013

  The right of Eavan Boland to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorised distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights, and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly

  Epub ISBN 978–1–84777–506–1

  Mobi ISBN 978–1–84777–507–8

  PDF ISBN 978–1–84777–508–5

  The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England