Eavan Boland announced as winner of Costa Poetry Award: Posthumous honour for poet who died in 2020
Eavan Boland, pictured here in 2011, has won the Costa Poetry Award for The Historians.
Late Irish poet Eavan Boland has been announced as the winner of the Costa Poetry Award. The Dublin-born poet, who passed away last April following a stroke at the age of 75, took the prestigious prize for her final collection, The Historians.
Boland's book succeeds last year's winner, Flèche by Mary Jean Chan, and is the first win in the poetry section for an Irish poet. Originally founded in 1971 as the Whitbread Book Awards, in 1986 the UK coffee house brand took over the sponsorship of the annual awards for writers based in Britain and Ireland.
