Boland's collection An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967—1987 (1996) contains her five early volumes of poetry, including Night Feed.

Boland's poetry collection Against Love Poetry: Poems (2001) features poems about the contradictions of daily love and the necessity of women's freedom.

In Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time (1995), Boland blends autobiography with polemic to elucidate her ideas about the roles of women in Ireland and of women poets in the traditionally male-dominated Irish literary world.

The anthology Stories by Contemporary Irish Women (1990) features fiction by Mary Lavin, Edna O'Brien, Julia O'Faolain, and others.

Adrienne Rich's Poetry and Prose (1993) contains the American feminist poet's poems, prose, and criticism on her work.

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1903) contains poems by this prominent Irish poet who influenced Boland's writing.

Selected Poems 1966—1987 (1990) comprises poems by...