Skip to main content
Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin City Council

Main navigation

  • Residential
  • Business
  • Your Council
Menu
Menu
Advanced Search

Main navigation (mobile)

  • Residential
  • Business
  • Your Council
Breadcrumb
  1. Home
  2. Libraries
  3. blog
Language switcher
  • English
  • Gaeilge

Eavan Boland scoops Costa Poetry Award for her final book

Back to blog

Published on 5th January 2021

Share
  • Share via Twitter
  • Share via Facebook
  • Share via WhatsApp
Evan Boland

Image: Irish poet Eavan Boland (1944-2020), Photo Credit 2015: Independent.ie

Dublin-born poet Eavan Boland, who died last spring at the age of 75, has posthumously won the prestigious Costa Poetry Award for her final collection of poems.

The former professor of English and humanities as well as the director of the creative writing program at Stanford University in California, won the prize for The Historians which was described by the judges as “some of the finest lines of poetry written this century.”

They describe the collection as “the culmination of her signature themes, exploring the ways in which the hidden, sometimes all-but-erased stories of women’s lives can powerfully revise our sense of the past.”

Her Irish Times obituary said she “broke the mould of Irish poetry – and drew new audiences to the form – by making women’s experiences central to her poems”.

She grew up in London and New York before returning to Dublin where she received a bachelor’s degree in 1966 from Trinity College, followed by the publication of her first collection of poetry New Territory the following year.

Costa Book Awards 2021

This year's winning books

Ingrid Persaud won the Costa First Novel Award for Love After Love, her debut set in her native Trinidad. (Irish author Michelle Gallen had been shortlisted for Big Girl Small Town.) Monique Roffey, who is also from Trinidad, won the Costa Novel Award for her seventh book, The Mermaid of Black Conch: A Love Story. Lee Lawrence, son of Brixton gun victim Cherry Groce, won the Costa Biography Award for his first book, the memoir, The Louder I Will Sing: A story of racism, riots and redemption. Please note that our reservations function is switched off during Level 5 restrictions for all library stock. 

Natasha Farrant won the Costa Children’s Book Award with her twelfth book, Voyage of the Sparrowhawk and that is available on Borrowbox. 

Access eBooks/eAudiobooks on your phone, tablet or reader. Once you have installed the app, search for Dublin in the ‘Library’ field provided and then sign in using your library membership card number and PIN.

Watch our how to video on Borrowbox. Members of other library authorities will need to log in using a different link.

The Costa Book Awards is the only major book prize open solely to authors resident in Britain and Ireland. 

Tags:
book awards
libraries & archive news
Share
  • Share via Twitter
  • Share via Facebook
  • Share via WhatsApp
0 Comments

Add new comment

Genre

action-adventure
crime-thriller
fantasy
historical fiction
horror
mystery
romance
science fiction
war
western

Recommended Tags

archives
author spotlight
author visits
biographies
book awards
book clubs
books & reading
business & employment
children
children's books
Citizens in Conflict (series)
Comics
creative writing
Culture Night (podcasts)
digitised works
Dublin Remembers 1916
DVDs
eResources
events
family history
gilbert lecture (podcasts)
graphic novels
history (podcasts)
image galleries
Irish fiction
learning
libraries & archive news
local studies
music
non-fiction
photographic collections
podcasts
publications
reviews
staff picks
talking books
teens
text version
travel
videos
websites
work matters
Close

Main navigation

  • Residential
  • Business
  • Your Council

Footer menu

  • About Us
    • Careers
    • Who Does What
    • News and Media
    • Policies and Documents
  • Using dublincity.ie
    • Website Accessibility
    • Privacy Statement
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Sitemap
  • Statutory Obligations
    • Freedom of Information
    • Data Protection
    • Access to Information on the Environment
    • Protected Disclosures
    • Lobbying
    • Official Languages Act
    • Ethics
    • Public Sector Duty
    • Sell to government
  • Get in Touch / Feedback
    • Contact Us
    • Make a Service Request
    • Make a Payment
    • Make a Complaint
    • Public Consultations

Customer Services Centre

Address

Civic Offices
Wood Quay
Dublin 8
D08 RF3F
Ireland

Telephone Number
01 222 2222
Email Address
[email protected]

Comhairle Cathrach Bhaile Átha Cliath / Dublin City Council
Dublin City Council
Visit our other sites

© 2022 Dublin City Council