Blogs about: Eavan Boland

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Quote of the Week

sbuenglish wrote 9 hours ago: “The legend must be hers as well as mine. She will enter it. As I have. She will wake up. She … more →

Tags: Quote of the week, The Pomegranate, celia marshik

Unexpected bonus8 comments

Robin Houghton wrote 1 week ago: In the post today came a copy of Poetry magazine, volume 202 number 1 – yes, it’s been g … more →

Tags: Serendipity, Mags & Blogs, Inspiration, Us poetry, The Rialto, Poetry Magazine, American Poetry, Ezra Pound, Jamaal May

Happy Mother's Day!

jik wrote 1 week ago: “I had two children….It is the greatest act of creativity and the one which is most like … more →

Tags: Poetry, Quotes

Moving through the Margins

eod23 wrote 1 week ago:                             Moving through Margins in Irish Poetry                                   … more →

Tags: Women, Poetry, forgotten, marginalised, roles, Irish, History

Love- Eavan Boland

seonaidodonnell wrote 3 weeks ago: This is the poem by Eavan Boyland that I mentioned in my previous blog. For me it’s quite a sa … more →

Tags: Poetry, Love, greek mythology

The Pomegranate

seonaidodonnell wrote 3 weeks ago: I have to admit I always enjoyed English in school, poetry, novels, plays and essays, I genuinely li … more →

Tags: Poetry, The Pomegranate, greek mythology

Lummox #11 comment

Clairet wrote 1 month ago: -Reviewed by Billy Mills-   This first issue of the annual poetry journal Lummox is a great unwieldy … more →

Tags: Magazine, Saboteur Awards, Billy Mills, Charles Bukowski, Diane Di Prima, ed dorn, Jack Foley, Jared Smith, Kell Robertson

Quarantine By Eavan Boland

Renard Moreau wrote 1 month ago: In the worst hour of the worst season of the worst year of a whole people a man set out from the wor … more →

Tags: Philosophical, Thoughts, People, Articles, Featured, Poetry, Poems, Literature, Women

DAY 16: Favorite Irish Poem1 comment

Aine wrote 1 month ago: This photo of The Famine Sculpture - Dublin is courtesy of TripAdvisor Odds are I will have a new on … more →

Tags: Aine's Irish Faves, Famine, the emigrant irish, Irish Poets

My Country In Darkness By Eavan Boland

Renard Moreau wrote 1 month ago: After the wolves and before the elms the bardic order ended in Ireland. Only a few remained to conti … more →

Tags: Philosophical, Thoughts, Articles, Featured, Miscellaneous, Poetry, Poems, Literature

poems and other domestic objects

kim trainor wrote 1 month ago: “It is worth one’s while, at certain hours of the day or night, to scrutinize useful obj … more →

Tags: Making, Materiality of Language, poetry as DNA, The use of poetry, DNA, Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Emmanuel Levinas, genotext/phenotext, Gerald Bruns

Eavan Boland--Submitted by Lauren Hughes

englishatwestminster wrote 1 month ago: The Dolls Museum in Dublin 1994 The wounds are terrible. The paint is old. The cracks along the lips … more →

Tags: Women's History Month, Poetry, dolls museum in dublin, Women Writers

Poems for Saint Patrick's Day: favourites of “me Ma”

Zócalo Poets wrote 2 months ago: ZP_Eileen Thompson in 1948, not long after her arrival in Toronto from Belfast, Northern Ireland_Now … more →

Tags: English, Poems for Saint Patrick's Day

AP Lit: Pausing Hamlet for Some On Demand Work

flight307 wrote 2 months ago: Tuesday I neglected our poor blog here.  And that, my friends, must not be the case again. (Even tho … more →

Tags: AP-Lit, Design, hamlet, Test Prep, visual note-taking, Visual Thinking, Kleon, rsa animate, Core77

The Storyteller and the Poet: a St. Patrick's Day Writing Prompt (revisited 2013)

Stefanie Lipsey wrote 2 months ago: Imagine you’re traveling by bus along a beautiful road, just a short distance from Dublin, Ire … more →

Tags: Poetry, Reading, Travel Writing, Writing Inspiration, Writing prompt #2, AWP Boston, Ireland, Irish Poetry, Patrick Kavanagh

LEAVING CERT POETRY - SAMPLE ESSAY SET: €4.99 - PLATH,RICH,MAHON,BISHOP,WORDSWORTH + HOPKINS

ienglish.ie wrote 2 months ago:   Leaving Certificate Mock Preparation Sample Poetry Essays >PLATH,RICH,MAHON,BISHOP,WORDSWO … more →

Tags: 6th year, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Hopkins, Leaving Cert, Sylvia Plath, William Wordsworth, Wordsworth, Leaving Cert

Good Advice For the End of the World (as We Know It)4 comments

Kaitlin Solimine wrote 5 months ago: So about that ‘Mayan’ apocalypse. Oops. Yet another End of the World prediction that fai … more →

Tags: Smile, End of the World Predictions, Ingrid Contreras, KQED, mayan apocalypse, Spirituality and Health magazine

"For a moment we are closer | in our sorrow than we’ve ever been." ~ Joan Selinger Sidney from "Next Door"2 comments

poietes wrote 5 months ago:                     “I think our country sinks beneath the yoke; It weeps, it bleeds, and each … more →

Tags: Poets and writers, Writing Blogs, Just keep Breathing, POIETES, Too Many Heartbreaks, Too Many Tears, Being Brutally Honest, blogsurfer.us, wordpress. com, being here

HoCoPoLitSo to Welcome Colum McCann to the 35th Irish Evening - Tickets now on sale.1 comment

timsingleton wrote 5 months ago: Colum McCann. Photo by Brendan Bourke. The international award winning author Colum McCann is HoCoPo … more →

Tags: HoCoPoLitSo, Irish evening, 35th annual irish evening, Brendan Mulvihill, Colm Toibin, Colum McCann, culkin school, Eileen Korn, Frank McCourt


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