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The Wake Forest book of Irish women's poetry, selected and with a preface by Peggy O'Brien

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Includes bibliographical references (page 637) and index

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The Wake Forest book of Irish women's poetry

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selected and with a preface by Peggy O'Brien

With poetry by sixteen of Ireland's finest poets: Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Eavan Boland, Eva Bourke, Medbh McGuckian, Kerry Hardie, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Mary O'Malley, Rita Ann Higgins, Paula Meehan, Moya Cannon, Katie Donovan, Vona Groarke, Enda Wyley, Sinéad Morrissey, Caitríona O'Reilly, and Leontia Flynn

Eilean Ni Chuilleanain [B. 1942] -- The Second Voyage -- The Lady's Tower -- Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht -- From Site of Ambush -- 7.Now -- Swineherd -- The Second Voyage -- Survivors -- Acts and Monuments -- A Midwinter Prayer -- Going Back to Oxford -- Early Recollections -- Wash -- The Magdalene Sermon & Earlier Poems -- Pygmalion's Image -- The Pig-boy -- Street -- The Hill-town -- London -- River, with Boats -- The Italian Kitchen -- J'ai Mal a nos Dents -- St Mary Magdalene Preaching at Marseilles -- Chrissie -- ̀He Hangs in Shades the Orange Bright' -- From The Rose-Geranium -- 2.She Opened the Egg -- 15.The Bare Deal Board -- The Brazen Serpent -- Fireman's Lift -- The Architectural Metaphor -- The Real Thing -- The Water Journey -- Saint Margaret of Cortona -- Our Lady of Youghal -- Following -- Woman Shoeing a Horse -- Vierge Ouvrante -- Man Watching a Woman -- That Summer -- A Hand, A Wood -- Studying the Language -- The Girl who Married the Reindeer -- The Crossroads -- Anchoress -- Peace in the Mountains -- In Her Other House -- The Girl who Married the Reindeer -- Translation -- Bessboro -- From an Apparition -- The Crevasse -- An Alcove -- Autun -- Crossing the Loire -- Tower of Storms, Island of Tides -- The Bend in the Road -- A Capitulary -- The Sun-fish -- The Witch in the Wardrobe -- A Bridge Between Two Counties -- Michael and the Angel from In His Language -- 1.After Drinking the Dragon's Blood -- 2.The Score -- Calendar Custom -- The Cure -- The Water -- In the Mountains -- The Sun-fish -- Brother Felix Fabri -- The Sister -- The Copious Dark -- Eavan Boland [B. 1944] -- New Territory -- New Territory -- In Her Own Image -- Making Up -- Night Feed -- Degas's Laundresses -- Woman in Kitchen -- The Woman Turns Herself into a Fish -- Night Feed -- The Journey -- The Oral Tradition -- The Journey -- Fond Memory -- Outside History -- The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me -- We Were Neutral in the War -- The Achill Woman -- What We Lost -- In a Time of Violence -- That the Science of Cartography is Limited -- The Dolls Muscum in Dublin -- The Pomegranate -- At the Glass Factory in Cavan Town -- Anna Liffey -- A Woman Painted on a Leaf -- The Lost Land -- The Harbour -- Home -- Dublin, 1959 -- The Last Discipline -- The Necessity for Irony -- Against Love Poetry -- In Which Hester Bateman, 18th Century English Silversmith, Takes an Irish Commission -- The Pinhole Camera -- The Burdens of a History -- How We Made a New Art on Old Ground -- Irish Poetry -- Domestic Violence -- From Domestic Violence: 1 -- Amber -- And Soul -- On This Earth -- To Memory -- The Room in Which My First Child Slept -- Eva Bourke [B. 1946] -- Gonella -- Advice on How to Hibernate -- The Cricket -- A Rat's Tale -- Litany for the Pig -- Ode to the Lemon -- For D. W. -- Spring in Henry Street -- A tree doesn't know it is miserable... -- Penelope -- Love After Chagall -- Spring in Henry Street -- Travels with Gandolpho -- From Rhinoceros: VI -- Some Days -- The Spider -- Valse Triste -- Travels with Gandolpho -- From Berlin Notebook -- VIII.Amber -- The Latitude of Naples -- From Landscape with Figures -- III.Journey South -- Institute for Higher Daughters -- From Poems Found on a Strand in Mannin Bay -- I.Cells -- From Washing My Mother: IV -- Medbh Mcguckian [B. 1950] -- The Flower Master and Other Poems -- Smoke -- Mr McGregor's Garden -- Slips -- The Sofa -- To My Grandmother -- Gateposts -- The Flower Master -- The Moon Pond -- The Aphrodisiac -- The Flitting -- Venus and the Rain -- From the Dressing-Room -- On Not Being Your Lover -- Prie-Dieu -- Venus and the Rain -- On Ballycastle Beach -- What Does Èarly' Mean? -- A Conversation Set to Flowers -- Sea or Sky? -- Minus 18 Street -- Four O'Clock, Summer Street -- Little House, Big House -- The Dream-Language of Fergus -- Marconi's Cottage -- Gigot Sleeves -- The Most Emily of All -- Breaking the Blue -- Clotho -- The Partner's Desk -- Marconi's Cottage -- Captain Lavender -- Candles at Three Thirty -- The Wake Sofa -- Black Note Study -- The Finder Has Become the Seeker -- Elegy for an Irish Speaker -- The Albert Chain -- Shelmalier -- Pulsus Paradoxus -- Shelmalier -- Blue Doctrine -- Plague Song -- The Jasmine-Picker -- The Society of the Bomb -- Drawing Ballerinas (2001) and The Soldiers of Year II (2002) -- Drawing Ballerinas -- A Ballet Called ̀Culloden' -- The Face of the Earth and The Soldiers of Year II (2002) -- Revival of Gathered Scents -- Making Your Own Eclipse -- This Ember Week -- The Change Worshipper -- The Soldiers of Year II and Had I A Thousand Lives (2003) -- Pincushion with Beaded Cross -- To My Disordered Muse -- The Book of the Angel -- Four Voices without an Instrument -- A More -- A Lost Epistle to Sister Beatrice -- In the Ploughzone -- The Tenth Muse -- The Currach Requires No Harbors -- The Good Wife Taught her Daughter -- Rebecca-at-the-well Teapot -- Anne Glyd, her Book, 1656 -- She Thinks She Sees Clarissa -- My Love Has Fared Inland -- Unsound Ship -- The Book Moth -- The Poetry of Fire, Third Evening -- The Muse of Electricity -- Kerry Hardie [B. 1951] -- A Furious Place -- We Change the Map -- The Young Woman Stands on the Edge of Her Life -- The Husband's Tale -- These Daily Dramas of Emigration -- All Night I Coughed -- Ship of Death -- Sick, Away from Home -- The Return -- A Childless Woman -- Red Houses -- Interlude -- Cry for the Hot Belly -- Seal Morning -- Carthage -- Summer's End -- The Heart's Adultery -- Animals and Snow -- What's Left -- The Sky Didn't Fall -- Rain in April -- One Sunflower -- Day's Ending -- The Silence Came Close -- Mushrooms and Cats -- Again -- After Rage -- The High Pyrenees -- Travelling -- In Bed Again -- Journey -- Only This Room -- From The Red Window: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 -- Sister Poem -- Remembering His Birthday -- From Kells Priory -- 3.The Gardener's Grumble -- Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill [B. 1952] -- Selected Poems -- Pog/Kiss -- Cu Chulainn II / Cu Chulainn II -- Dan Do Mhelissa / Poem for Melissa -- Pharaoh's Daughter -- An Ceann / The Head -- Fear Suaithinseach / Miraculous Grass -- An Crann / As for the Quince -- Chomh Leochaileach le Sliogan / As Fragile as a Shell -- Gan do Chuid Eadaigh / Nude -- Cailleach / Hag -- Ceist na Teangan / The Language Issue -- The Astrakhan Cloak -- Feis / Carnival -- An Bhatrail / The Battering -- La Chead Chomaoineach / First Communion -- Dipfrios / Deep-Freeze -- Caitlin / Cathleen -- The Water Horse -- An tEach Uisce / The Water Horse -- Bahaemot / Behemoth -- Oscailt an Tuama / Opening the Tomb -- Ceol / Music on the Air -- Tusa / You Are -- Filleadh na Beithe / The Prodigal Muse -- Tsunami / Tsunami -- The Fifty Minute Mermaid -- Mo Mhaistir Dorcha / My Dark Master -- Cuimhne an Uisce / A Recovered Memory of Water -- An Mhuruch san Ospideal / The Mermaid in the Hospital -- Muruch Linbh gan Baisteadh / An Unbaptised Merchild -- Bas agus Aiseiri na Muruiche / The Death and Rebirth of the Mermaid -- Teoranna / Boundaries -- Melusine / Melusine -- Filleadh na Muruiche ar an dTir-fo-Thoinn / The Mermaid Returns to Land-Under-Wave -- An Mhuruch Seo ̀gainne fo Thoinn Aris / Our Mermaid Goes Under Again -- Mary O'Malley [B. 1954] -- Where the Rocks Float -- The Visit -- Cornered -- The Price of Silk is Paid in Stone -- The Cave -- Cealtrach -- The Fiddle Player -- Liadan with a Mortgage Briefly Tastes the Stars -- The Maighdean Mhara -- Grainne's Answer to Burke's Proposal -- The Knife in the Wave -- The Wound -- Lullaby -- Shoeing the Currach -- A Young Matron Dances Free of the Island -- The Sea Urchin -- From The Seal Woman: V -- Asylum Road -- The Pearl Sonnet -- On Waking -- The Spanish Lady -- Craft -- The Boning Hall -- Pegeen Mike's Farewell to the Playboy -- The Ice Age -- The Dinner Table -- Finis -- A Perfect V -- The Heart -- The Change -- Arrival in Paris -- On the Rue des Irlandais -- Rescue -- Rita Ann Higgins [B. 1955] -- Goddess on the Mervue Bus -- Consumptive in the Library -- Sunny Side Plucked -- Witch in the Bushes -- It's All Because We're Working-Class -- She is Not Afraid of Burglars -- The Did-You-Come-Yets of the Western World -- Be Someone -- Witch in the Bushes -- Anything is Better than Emptying Bins -- Some People -- Philomena's Revenge -- Philomena's Revenge -- Misogynist -- The Deserter -- Old Timers -- Higher Purchase -- The Flute Girl's Dialogue -- Remapping the Borders -- Night Noon and Nora -- Throw in the Vowels -- The Servers -- The Real Mourners -- An Awful Racket -- The River -- Anthem -- The Fracture -- Snakes and Ladders -- Lucky Mrs Higgins -- Hey Greggie -- An Awful Racket -- Paula Meehan [B. 1955] -- The Man Who Was Marked by Winter -- The Leaving -- Zugzwang -- Buying Winkles -- The Pattern -- Child Burial -- Return and No Blame -- Her Heroin Dream -- Fruit -- The Man who was Marked by Winter -- My Love about his Business in the Barn -- Pillow Talk -- Laburnum -- Ẁould you jump into my grave as quick?' -- Dream Filter -- Dharmakaya -- Dharmakaya -- Thunder in the House -- From The Lost Children of the Inner City -- History Lesson -- From Three Love Songs -- The Bog of Moods -- At Slyguff Lock -- From Suburb -- Mistle Thrush -- Recovery -- A Woman's Right to Silence -- Painting Rain -- S̀he didn't know she was dying but the poems did' -- The Following Message Will Be Deleted From Your Mailbox -- From Sea -- Ashes -- From Six Sycamores -- Number Fifty-One -- Shoes -- From A Change of Life -- Solomon's Seal -- From Troika -- 3.This Is Not a Confessional Poem -- Hearth Lesson -- Moya Cannon [B. 1956] -- Oar -- Thirst in the Burren -- Oar -- Scar -- The Parchment Boat -- Crannog -- Oysters -- Tending -- Arctic Tern -- Milk -- Scriob -- Thole-Pin -- Introductions -- Driving Through Light in West Limerick -- Hunter's Moon -- Night -- Carrying the Songs -- Forgetting Tulips -- Weaning -- Shells -- Breastbone -- Pollen -- The Force -- Katie Donovan [B. 1961] -- Watermelon Man

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