Through critical and creative responses, Eavan Boland: Inside History takes a fresh look at Boland's influence as a poet and critic for the twenty-first century. The essays, poems, and interviews gathered here provide a new frame for critically engaging with Boland's work, one that crosses continental and aesthetic boundaries. Contributors include: Jody Allen Randolph Dermot Bolger Thomas Kinsella Paula Meehan Paul Muldoon Colm Toibin Eamonn Wall

A generous selection of the work of one of Ireland's most admired younger poets. Paul Perry's world is the compromised, chastened, technology-loving word we live in but he manages to convey that it is not reduced, flattened or less than it was.