A Shadow in Her Notebook

Authors

  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
  • Jorge Rodríguez Durán

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197798

Abstract

“A Shadow in Her Notebook” by Eiléan Ní Chuileanáin. Written for “Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images”, ABEI Journal 23.2 (2021).

Author Biographies

  • Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

    Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was born in 1942 in Cork, she taught English Renaissance literature at Trinity College, Dublin from 1966 to 2011.  She was Ireland Professor of Poetry from 2016-19.  She has published eleven collections of poetry; the latest, The Mother House, received the Irish Times/ Poetry Now award in 2019. Her Collected Poems appeared in 2020 from Gallery Press and was awarded the Pigott Prize at the Listowel Writers’ Week in 2021. She has published translations of poetry from several languages, most recently Danta Antonella Anedda, translated from Italian into Irish, published by Cois Life in 2019. Lucina Schynning in Silence of the Nicht (poems translated into Chinese) was published by Sichuan Ethnic Publishing Company, Chengdu, in 2020, when she was awarded the 1573 International Poetry Prize at the International Festival of Poetry and Liquor in Luzhou, Sichuan Province. She was one of four founding editors, with her late husband Macdara Woods, Pearse Hutchinson and Leland Bardwell, of the literary magazine Cyphers, and remains its principal editor.  

  • Jorge Rodríguez Durán

    Jorge Rodríguez Durán is member of the group of competitive reference  Discourse & Identity at the University of Santiago de Compostela, and also a member of the research group Crosswinds (NUI Galway, Moore Institute). As a poet, he was runner up the in the III Mazarelos Literary Award with the collection O sentido común. Since then, he has published his own texts in the poetry leaflet Manual de estilo (Leite Edicións, 2019), the anthology Poesía galega novísima (Urutau, 2020), and in literary journals such as Dorna, Grial and the Sermos Galiza literary supplement. Most recently, he has published his first poetry collection Cosmo(a)gonía (Edicións Fetiche, 2021) and has also contributed to the anthology The Multilingual Mermaid (The Gallery Press, 2021) translating poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill into Spanish and Galician. 

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Published

2021-05-23

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2021): ABEI Journal 23.2 Special Issue Eavan Boland — In Her Many Images

Section

Poems For a Poet

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Copyright (c) 2021 Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin; Jorge Rodríguez Durán

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How to Cite

Ní Chuilleanáin, E. (2021). A Shadow in Her Notebook (J. R. Durán , Trans.). ABEI Journal, 23(2), 234-235. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v23i2.197798