Wake Forest University Press

2002   69 pages
clothbound

"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's new collection of poems, The Girl who Married the Reindeer, brings together poems so elegant and difficult, rich and haunting, that this slim volume stands as both her finest achievement to date and a landmark in contemporary poetry." Helen Emmitt, Irish Literary Supplement

April  2009 

ISBN 978-1-930630-44-4  paperback $12.95

"There is something second-sighted about Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's work. Her poems see things anew, in a rinsed and dreamstruck light. They are at once at plain as an anecdote told on the doorstep and as haunting as a soothsayer's greetings." Seamus Heaney

2002   69 pages
paperback

"Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's best work (of which this collection is unquestionably part) spins ... elements in a liminal landscape between this world and another, far more marvelous one." Jenny Ludwig, Boston Review

1995   50 pages
clothbound

"It's the quiet confidence of her voice, its modesty, its convinced seriousness and toughness, its thoughtful discretion and its refusal of easy options that I especially like, as well as the kind of hard but at the same time (and in every sense) careful life in which she bathes her sense... In volume after slim volume (she is the most exacting pruner of her own work, or she has the patience to wait for the poem that's right) she has accumulated a body of exquisite and substantial work that places her among the most accomplished poets now writing in, or out of, Ireland." Eamon Grennan, Poetry Ireland Review

1995   50 pages
paperback

"It's the quiet confidence of her voice, its modesty, its convinced seriousness and toughness, its thoughtful discretion and its refusal of easy options that I especially like, as well as the kind of hard but at the same time (and in every sense) careful life in which she bathes her sense... In volume after slim volume (she is the most exacting pruner of her own work, or she has the patience to wait for the poem that's right) she has accumulated a body of exquisite and substantial work that places her among the most accomplished poets now writing in, or out of, Ireland." Eamon Grennan, Poetry Ireland Review

1991   64 pages
paperback

"It is fitting that Mary Magdalene--who has been seen as whore, apostle, love, and priestess--be the patron saint of this book.  Ni Chuilleanain's eccentric poems uncover hidden dramas in many guises, and she continually holds us captive by her luminous voice." Molly Bendall, Denver Quarterly

1991   72 pages
paperback
Revised edition

"All through the book, she presents a world which she marks out, measures and makes known.  The 'acts and monuments' of time, memory, myth and history felsh out the ghosts of her world.... "The Second Voyage" is a joy to read, a model of craft and vision and a quietly original poetry which does not jettison tradition." Philip Casey, Cencrastus

1977   54 pages
paperback, 1st ed.
Rare and collectible

"Her voice and technique are so solid, so secure, and contain deep echoes of older poetry, as Irish verse tends to do." Robert Hudson, WorkingPoet.com

2000   128 pages
paperback
In Irish; translated by Medbh McGuckian and Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

"As is expected to be expected of such a thrilling collaboration between such talented individuals, the results are literary magic. Ni Dhomhnaill's style is at once erudite and down-to-earth, cosmopolitan and parochial." Niall McGrath, The Black Mountain Review

1993   112 pages
paperback
In Irish; translated by Paul Muldoon

"Certainly the work of both poets has much in common: sensuality, wit, irreverence and a delight in lore, legend (particularly local legend) and linguistic dexterity.... The poems often read like spells set to invigorate and intrigue." The Sunday Tribune