Further Reading
- Burns, Christy. "Beautiful Labors: Lyricism and Feminist Revisions in Eavan Boland's Poetry." Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 20, no. 2 (fall 2001): 217-36. (Explores "the tension in Boland's work between her political investment in representing women—especially the laboring poor—and her attraction to beautiful images and seductive, lyrical language.")
- Consalvo, Deborah McWilliams. "'Between Rhetoric and Reality': An Interview with Eavan Boland on the Place of the Woman Poet in the Irish Literary Canon." Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 81 (Spring 1992): 89-100. (Interview in which Boland discusses the relationship of her poetry to feminism, politics, and Irish literature.)
- Consalvo, Deborah McWilliams. "In Common Usage: Eavan Boland's Poetic Voice." Éire-Ireland 28, no. 2 (summer 1993): 98-115. (Examines the range of Boland's craft as a poet and assesses her poetic contribution.)
- Fogarty, Anne. "'A Noise of Myth': Speaking (as) Woman in the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Medbh McGuckian." Paragraph 17, no. 1 (March 1994): 92-102. (Notes affinities between the work of Boland and Medbh McGuckian.)
- Fogarty, Anne. "'The Influence of Absences': Eavan Boland and the Silenced History of Irish Women's Poetry." Colby Quarterly 35, no. 4 (December 1999): 256-74. (Juxtaposes the work of Temple Lane and Rhoda Lane with Boland's poetry in order to discuss the concept of the invisible female poet within the Irish literary tradition.)
- Foster, Thomas C. "In from the Margin: Eavan Boland's 'Outside History' Sequence." In Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Some Male Perspectives, edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez, pp. 1-12. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. (Considers Boland's struggle to define and repossess her identity as a woman poet through an examination of the poems in Outside History.)
- Harper, Margaret Mills. "First Principles and Last Things: Death and the Poetry of Eavan Boland and Audre Lorde." In Representing Ireland: Gender, Class, Nationality, edited by Susan Shaw Sailer, pp. 181-93. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. (Addresses the relationship of dying and writing in the work of Boland and Audre Lorde.)
- Henigan, Robert. "Contemporary Women Poets in Ireland." Concerning Poetry 18, Nos. 1 and 2 (1985): 103-15. (Discusses the work of Boland and other Irish contemporary women poets and their presentation of the lives of women.)
- Kerrigan, John. "Belonging." London Review of Books 18, No. 14 (18 July 1996): 26. (Reviews Boland's Object Lessons and Collected Poems.)
- Kupillas, Peter. "Bringing It All Back Home: Unity and Meaning in Eavan Boland's 'Domestic Interior' Sequence." In Contemporary Irish Women Poets: Some Male Perspectives, edited by Alexander G. Gonzalez, pp. 13-32. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1999. (Explores the placement and unity of the poems in the 'Domestic Interior' sequence in Outside History.)
- O'Connell, Patty. "Eavan Boland: An Interview." Poets & Writers Magazine 22, No. 6 (November/December 1994): 36-45. (Discusses Boland's growing U.S. audience and the difference between American and Irish poetry as Boland sees it.)
- Riley, Jeannette E. "'Becoming an Agent of Change': Eavan Boland's 'Outside History' and 'In a Time of Violence.'" Irish Studies Review, no. 20 (autumn 1997): 23-9. (Contends that Boland explores the tension between national and feminine identities in Outside History and In a Time of Violence.)
- Russell, Richard Rankin. "W. B. Yeats and Eavan Boland: Postcolonial Poets?" In W. B. Yeats and Postcolonialism, edited by Deborah Fleming, pp. 101-32. West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press, 2001. (Considers the influence of W. B. Yeats on Boland's verse.)
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