Eavan Boland's The Historians is a powerful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century. It explores the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of women's lives can revise our sense of the past, addressing Irish suffragettes and promising to not leave them behind. The book was awarded the Costa Poetry Award 2020, the Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020, the Guardian Book of the Year 2020, the Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020, and the Irish Times Book of the Year 2020. Format: Paperback / softback Length: 80 pages Publication date: 29 October 2020 Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd Winner of the Costa Poetry Award 2020, A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2020, A Guardian Book of the Year 2020, A Sunday Independent Book of the Year 2020, and An Irish Times Book of the Year 2020, Eavan Boland's The Historians is a powerful and moving final volume from one of the most masterful poets of the twentieth century. Throughout her nearly sixty-year career, Boland came to be known for her exquisite ability to weave myth, history, and the life of an ordinary woman into mesmerizing poetry. She was an essential voice in both feminist and Irish literature, praised for her edgy precision, uncanny sympathy and warmth, and unsettling sense of history.Her final volume, The Historians, is the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of women's lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past. Two women burning letters in a back garden. A poet who died too young. A mother's parable to her daughter. Boland listens to women who have long had no agency in the way their stories were told; in the title poem, she writes: "Say the word history: I see / your mother, mine. / ... Their hands are full of words."Addressing Irish suffragettes in the final poem, Boland promises: "We will not leave you behind, a promise that animates each poem in this radiant collection." These extraordinary, intimate narratives cling to the future through memory, anger, and love in ways that rebuke the official record we call history. Weight: 114g Dimension: 134 x 215 x 10 (mm) ISBN-13: 9781784109141
