Drawing map of demons that face female knights

A Journey With Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet

EAVAN BOLAND has been one of the most important Irish poets of the last 30 years; and unquestionably the most brilliant Dublin-born poet since Thomas Kinsella.

Her very public brilliance may have worked against her over the years, for the Irish poetry world — and it is a strange old world of fortune-tellers and horse thieves — is suspicious of brilliance.