A renowned Irish poet, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has published 7 collections of poetry. Born in Cork City in 1942, her collections include Acts and Monuments (1972), Site of Ambush (1975), The Second Voyage (1977), The Rose Geranium (1981), The Magdalene Sermon (1989), The Brazen Serpent (1994) and The Girl Who Married the Reindeer (2001). This new selection brings together some of her most distinctive work, published for the first time in the UK.

Selected Poems Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Literature & Fiction

Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan

History & Criticism

Faber&Faber

The Magdalene Sermon and Earlier Poems

The Magdalene Sermon was published in Ireland by The Gallery Press in 1989 and was chosen as one of the three best books of poetry that year by the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Poetry Book Prize Committee. It is augmented in this volume by earlier poems selected and revised from The Rose-Geranium series.

Poetry

Wake Forest University Press

Wake Forest Univ Pr

Second Voyage

In The Brazen Serpent, among other preoccupations, poems explore how the most basic legendsfamily storiesfragment and alter in each individual’s memory. Ní Chuilleanáin’s language is supple and acute enough to undertake its most difficult subject, how we perceive and understand the world, and how we share our worlds in mystery and love. The Brazen Serpent marks yet another advance in the work of a major poet.

The Brazen Serpent

In The Brazen Serpent, among other preoccupations, poems explore how the most basic legendsfamily storiesfragment and alter in each individual’s memory. Ní Chuilleanáin’s language is supple and acute enough to undertake its most difficult subject, how we perceive and understand the world, and how we share our worlds in mystery and love. The Brazen Serpent marks yet another advance in the work of a major poet.

The second voyage

Gallery Press

Instead of a Shrine (Volume 7) (The Poet's Chair: Writings from the Ireland Chair of Poetry)

Univ College Dubli

In The Girl Who Married the Reindeer, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin radically redesigns the language and form of poetic narrative. In poems about journeys to worlds real and metaphorical, she reveals deft crossings of borders, linguistic boundaries, and cultures, from the sepulchre of Lazarus to the web of a spider who makes her own new centre every day.” Beginning mid-journey, the poems often arrive at mysterious destinations. Throughout the volume, Ní Chuilleanáin displaces the finger posts of narrative which is redefined of a traveler’s productive strayings and even self-exiles: I follow the road that follows the lie of the land.”

The Girl Who Married the Reindeer

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Books by Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan

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Selected Poems Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

The Magdalene Sermon and Earlier Poems

The Magdalene Sermon and Earlier Poems

Second Voyage

The Brazen Serpent

The Brazen Serpent

The second voyage

Instead of a Shrine (Volume 7) (The Poet's Chair: Writings from the Ireland Chair of Poetry)

The Girl Who Married the Reindeer

The Girl Who Married the Reindeer