Results for "Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan"

Pandemia being a land or planet whose name derives from the word pandemic. This is an anthology of brilliant work by both established and emerging poets from across the English-speaking world, from Australia to India, Europe to North America. With its accounts of life changed utterly, lives abruptly...

In The Map of the World, Eilé an Ní Chuilleaná in continues her vital work “ to hold in view / history’ s patched lining, the sewing.” Within this patchwork, there are pilgrimages to holy wells, bishops and bookbinders, and...

A revelatory journey through memory, history, and the Irish landscape. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's The Boys of Bluehill unveils a world of profound imagery and sensibility. Her poems explore the complexities of memory, the power of language, and the mysteries of nature. This collection resonates with...

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Sun-fish deftly displays the poet’s gift for the allegorical, verging at times on parable, yet always with a sense of lived experience and a strong acknowledgement of the everyday. From the dedicatory epithalamium to the concluding poem, Ní Chuilleanáin’s enigmatic verse...

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s Selected Poems gathers poems from six collections of poetry, from Acts and Monuments (1972) to The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001), and proves that she is one of the major poets in Ireland. While her numerous images of mythical figures, travelers, pilgrims, and women...

A haunting exploration of memory, loss, and history through the lens of Irish poetry.The Mother House delves into the lives of orphans, exiles, and the marginalized, painting a vivid picture of decay, destruction, and disaster.

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's poems serve as allegories of our age, reflecting...

Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin’s The Sun-fish deftly displays the poet’s gift for the allegorical, verging at times on parable, yet always with a sense of lived experience and a strong acknowledgement of the everyday. From the dedicatory epithalamium to the concluding poem, Ní Chuilleanáin’s enigmatic verse...

In The Brazen Serpent, among other preoccupations, poems explore how the most basic legends—family stories—fragment and alter in each individual’s memory. Ní Chuilleanáin’s language is supple and acute enough to undertake its most difficult subject, how we perceive and understand the world, and how...

Ileana M?l?ncioiu is considered a hero and visionary in Romania, where she lived under the oppressive Ceausescu regime, learning to make oblique statements both her art and political instrument. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin studied Romanian so she could movingly translate these poems and their powerful...

The Magdalene Sermon was published in Ireland by The Gallery Press in 1989 and was chosen as one of the three best books of poetry that year by the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Poetry Book Prize Committee. It is augmented in this volume by earlier poems selected and revised from The Rose-Geranium series.