by Eamonn Boylan | Sep 10, 2021 | Essays
Introduction to The Forward Book of Poetry 2021, Faber and Faber, 2020. This anthology contains work by all the authors shortlisted in the 2020 Forward Prizes for Poetry, and a wide selection of other poems chosen by the judging panel. In my introduction to the...
by Eamonn Boylan | Sep 1, 2021 | Essays
Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, autumn 2021. ‘The glint and glimmer, the tension and passion of these atmospheres has never grown old … It seems to me now that Constable’s work breathes with the love of others. It is made from friendships, from recollection of care...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2021 | Essays
‘Flint’, in Archipelago: A Reader, ed. Nicholas Allen and Fiona Stafford, Lilliput Press, 2021. ‘Garden walls, barns, cottages, smart houses: all built with flint, some roughly arranged to do the job, some knapped and tessellated with marquetry precision, or with...
by Eamonn Boylan | Mar 24, 2020 | Essays
‘Moving House’, in Lives of Houses, ed. by Kate Kennedy and Hermione Lee, Princeton University Press, 2020. https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691193663/lives-of-houses When I moved house, I found myself shaken by the strangeness of objects pulled out...
by Eamonn Boylan | Jun 1, 2019 | Essays
In Ivon Hitchens: Space through Colour, Pallant House Gallery, 2019. See also Art UK feature on Hitchens, ‘A Painter’s Sense of Place’, with text excerpted from the essay above and images of the many Hitchens paintings to be found in UK public collections. ‘Place...
by Eamonn Boylan | Nov 29, 2018 | Essays
‘Landscape Now: Conversation Piece’, British Art Studies, 10, November 2018. British Art Studies is published by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Yale Centre for British Art, and it’s freely available online. Issue 10 emerged partly from the Landscape Now conference...
