BRIDGET WHELAN writer

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Making a Poem – Eavan Boland QUOTES FOR WRITERS

If you can’t do a poem, you can do a line. And if you can’t do a line, you can do an image — and that pathway that leads you along, in fragments, becomes astonishingly valuable.

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In my generation, women went from being the objects of the Irish poem to being the authors of the Irish poem, and that was very disruptive in a literature that probably wasn’t prepared for that.

Eavan Boland who died a year ago on April 27th 2020
Read her poetry and discover more about her HERE



Photo Credit:: Nadja Golitschek from Pixabay

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