Leontia Flynn Taking Liberties

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Binding: Paperback

Date Published: 24 Aug 2023

'Anybody with an interest in poetry should be reading Leontia Flynn. Those with no interest should be reading her too: she has what it takes to overcome resistance. All mothers - especially new mothers - should read her... Her thinking is complicated but never arrogantly inaccessible. I was bowled over'
- Observer

'The real thing'
- Michael Longley, author of The Slain Birds

'One of the most original and accomplished poets of her generation'
- Guardian

'Surefooted and unsettling, Leontia Flynn's poems negotiate the cracks that lie below the surfaces of things. Reading them, we see the world differently'
- Ciaran Carson, author of Belfast Confetti

'One of the most strikingly original and exciting poetic voices to have emerged from Northern Ireland since the extraordinary debut by Muldoon thirty-five years ago... She doesn't put a foot wrong on the page'
- Fran Brearton

'A poet who is not only one of the best writers of her generation but who seems, more and more, to be the voice of that generation'
- John McAuliffe, author of The Kabuyl Olympics

About the Author

Leontia Flynn has published four poetry collections. Her first book, These Days, won the Forward Prize for best first collection, and her most recent, The Radio (2017), won the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. Her other awards include an Eric Gregory Award, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Prize for Irish Literature, and the AWB Vincent Literary Award, and she has twice been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. She is Reader in Poetry at Queen's University Belfast and was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

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Anybody with an interest in poetry should be reading Leontia Flynn. Those with no interest should be reading her too: she has what it takes to overcome resistance. All mothers - especially new mothers - should read her... Her thinking is complicated but never arrogantly inaccessible. I was bowled over * Observer *
Flynn captures the tension between poetry as a personal impulse for freedom, and the human tethering to world events... A thought-provoking, calming response to this 'intricate, coping life' * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *
The real thing -- Michael Longley, author of The Slain Birds
One of the most original and accomplished poets of her generation * Guardian *
One of the most strikingly original and exciting poetic voices to have emerged from Northern Ireland since the extraordinary debut by Muldoon thirty-five years ago... She doesn't put a foot wrong on the page -- Fran Brearton, The Great War in Irish Poetry
Surefooted and unsettling, Leontia Flynn's poems negotiate the cracks that lie below the surfaces of things. Reading them, we see the world differently -- Ciaran Carson, author of Belfast Confetti
A poet who is not only one of the best writers of her generation but who seems, more and more, to be the voice of that generation -- John McAuliffe, author of The Kabul Olympics
Makes clear what many people have known for the best part of two decades: she is one of the very best poets writing in Ireland in the twenty-first century. Taking Liberties is a consolidation of various strands of her poetic lives: musical without being conventional, funny without playing to the choir, scholarly without being exclusionary, dark without being morbid * Belfast Media *

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