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LELAND BARDWELL was born in India, grew up in Leixlip and was educated in Dublin with extra mural studies in London University. She has published five novels, most recently Mother to a Stranger which was a bestseller in translation in Germany, while her early novel The House was recently issued in their classic series by Blackstaff Press. Numerous radio plays and stories have been broadcast on RTÉ radio and her stage plays include The Life of Edith Piaf. Her most recent poetry collection is The Noise of Masonry Settling (Dedalus, 2006). Her memoir, A Restless Life, appeared in 2008 from Liberties Press. The recipient of the Marten Toonder Award in 1993, and the Dede Korkut Short Story Award from Turkish PEN in 2010, she is a co-editor of the long-running literary magazine, Cyphers. A member of Aosdána, she lives in County Sligo.
"She is the doyenne of women poets writing in English. Her work has humour and wit... It has the immediacy of personal conversation, yet is crafted with care for form. She makes something extraordinary of 'ordinary' experience"
—Irish Press
"Leland Bardwell's poetry is witty, full of sharp, intimate honesty, full of truth and surprises. She is a poet who has felt the shocks of our time, the private impacts and the historic changes"
—Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
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BARDWELL, Leland
Different Kinds of Love (stories)
February 2012
ISBN 9781906614515
128 pp, 216 x 140 mm / 5.5" x 8.5"
€11.99 paperback
Bardwell's keen-eyed, unflinching short stories, were originally published in 1987, and deal with a range of topics of considerable relevance to readers in our own difficult times. As fresh and relevant as when they first appeared, these stories, like Bardwell's poetry, record what Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin has called "the shocks of our time, the private impacts and the historic changes".
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BARDWELL, Leland
The Noise of Masonry Settling
2006
ISBN 1 904556 44 2
74 pp, 8.5" x 5.5"
"...poems of Brechtian bite... of editorial impulse... and of more durable, stripped-down mystery... Indeed, Bardwell resists sentimental inceptions in even the gentler of these poems, as in 'The Violets of the Poor'. Because Bardwell's allusions and imagery insistently site her poems in discomfiting Irish realities, the more confessional of her poems properly end and begin in the mode of Blake... Recalling the startling outsider verse of Bardwell's contemporary, Patrick Galvin, such lines remind us that Bardwell remains an outsider at home in Yeats's Sligo - unnaturalised in EU Ireland."
—Thomas Dillon Redshaw, The Irish Times
"...beautiful direct descriptions of the varied landscape of her home place..."
—Sligo Champion
"Honest and sparkling, Leland Bardwell's poetry comes alive on the page with an enviable lightness of touch, and in the same stroke delivers a punch..."
—Writing Notes from the Sligo Arts Office
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