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Collected Poems
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Collected Poems gathers nine collections of poetry, from Acts and Monuments (1972) to The Mother House (2020), as well as new poems and translations. Her poetry is scrupulously controlled but also continuously startling, using the language of history, religion, landscape, and myth. Travelers, pilgrims, and women--especially the veiled subject of the nun?remind us of our deepest inner sanctum with its litany of spiritual truths, human fears, and needs. These images also catalogue the importance of the ordinary and the domestic as metaphors for human experiences and emotions. Ní Chuilleanáin allows those who have been silenced by history to surface in art as surreal but living presences. It is now unquestionably apparent that she is one the major poets in contemporary Ireland.
The Girl who Married the Reindeer
Questions of inheritance permeate Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin s scintillating new collection. The blood that was sown here flowered, she writes, the past keeps warm, and though the story has moved away, she stores and treasures the shards of it. Never has her genius for penetrating detail been more apparent from the rain darning into the grass ( Bessboro ) to the cello changing gear at the foot of the long hill ( Crossing the Loire ). She is a poet of perfect pitch. The work in this book is among the finest being written in Ireland, or anywhere else.
The Mother House
The Mother House is rich with images of orphans, exiles, migrants, decay, destruction, famine, disaster, the cloistered, the drowned, the marginalized, as well as disappearance and memory, music and loss. The poems speak of histories, in Ireland and elsewhere, as allegories of our age. Yet, the poetic is not offered as a salvo or a salve, for as the poet questions, "We made the long journey // to deliver the gesture, but who has noticed us?" Ní Chuilleanain nevertheless proves that when the mirror is held at the right angle, the past can shed a telling light upon the present, observing with great acumen, "it was like history, held there / in view of another lifetime." In this remarkable volume, art and literature reflect human suffering and survival across many frontiers.
The Second Voyage
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Acts and Monuments
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The Boys of Bluehill
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Selected Poems
A selection and major retrospective of one of Ireland's most distinguished poets, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain."
The Second Voyage
This book is the Selected Poems of one of Ireland's finest writers. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's award-winning books have been published and much acclaimed in Ireland and America. Co-published with the Gallery Press, The Second Voyage introduced her work to English readers, drawing on her first three collections. The poems are taken from Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975) and The Rose Geranium (1981).
The water horse
Ranging easily between the tragic and the absurd, between the ritual murder of the water horse or the assassinations at Gibralter and the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Ni Dhomhnaill reminds us that the power of myth lies in local and personal resurrections, such as the imaginary opening of her own great-grandmother's tomb, but also, more sinisterly, as modern-day reenactments of Queen Medbh's bloody cattle raids in sectarian reprisals. Poems in Irish with translations by Medbh McGuckian and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain."
