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Drogheda knowing as I do that my attention has no agency, none at all. Nor my rage.” [ music: “What Did You Not Hear” by Gautam Srikishan] So this poem is a study and a story of Eavan Boland’s grandmother. In 1904, the grandmother had gone on a trip to Dublin from Drogheda. That’s a journey of about 50 miles. Drogheda is a large town about 50 miles north of Dublin. And when the grandmother had got home to Drogheda after having been in Dublin, she found an eviction notice on her door. And evictions carry a long history in Ireland, being used as a tool of oppression, as a tool of empire, with punishing measures and no accountability in the setting of rents or the changing of rents by those people who were landlords, and a deep complicity between landlords and empire. At the time, in 1904, Ireland wasn’t independent yet. And so this poem is about a tiny little experience of empire. ....
Half of this poem is about feeling torn between two cultures. The other half heals the tear, seeing that a life can be a living bridge between the tensions of the poet’s identities. ....
Guest Lorna Goodison is one of the Caribbean s most distinguished contemporary poets. Her work appears in the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces and her many honors include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Supplying Salt and Light, Controlling the Silver, Transcript Pádraig Ó Tuama: My name is Pádraig Ó Tuama, and one of the things I love about poetry is reading poetry from different parts of the world. So often, the so-called canon highlights poets, often male poets, from just one part of the world or just a few. But I wanted to read poems about the world that were written from the point of view of the people who lived through them, not just the people who were from the countries that colonized. ....
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