Clodagh Finn: Don’t underestimate the consolations of poetry

‘I tiptoe in./ I lift you up/ Wriggling/In your rosy,/ zipped sleeper./ Yes this is the hour/ For the early bird and me/ When finder is keeper’— Eavan Boland

Sat, 02 May, 2020 - 08:00

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Eavan Boland: Her poems can be our salve, says Paula Meehan. Picture: Maura Hickey

WE HAVE seen with the passing of Eavan Boland this week that poetry can console us in a way that is utterly real.

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