Dec 28, 2024 · A sense of longing permeates Leontia Flynn's collection with the speaker frequently alone in a room, contemplating the outside world, her place in it.

‘Leontia Flynn’s Taking Liberties brims with Flynn’s subtle wit and sure-footed, surprising lyrics’. Martina Evans, Irish Times Best new poetry collections of 2023 ‘Flynn captures the tension …

Born in County Down, northern Irish poet Leontia Flynn earned an MA at Edinburgh and a PhD in English on the poetry of Medbh McGuckian at Queen’s University Belfast. Influenced by Philip …

Dec 9, 2023 · Interiors provide many of the sites of exploration in Leontia Flynn’s Taking Liberties (Jonathan Cape, £14.99), the poet’s fifth collection. In poems set in master bedrooms, …

Leontia Flynn was born in Downpatrick, Co Down and grew up between Dundrum and Newcastle, Co Down. She attended Assumption Grammar School, Ballynahinch and afterwards began an …

Apr 11, 2024 · D. A. Prince reviews Taking Liberties by Leontia Flynn (Cape, 2024) When Leontia Flynn’s pamphlet Nina Simone is Singing (Mariscat, 2021) was short-listed for the Michael …

Oct 29, 2019 · ‘Leontia Flynn’s The Radio is a brilliant and challenging collection, a set of poems that truly cuts beneath the skin – she is, to use that ever-golden phrase, a poet approaching …

Leontia Flynn has published four collections of poetry with Jonathan Cape. Her most recent, The Radio (2017) was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize and won the Irish Times Poetry Prize.

Reviews of books by Leontia FlynnHenry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather …

Leontia Flynn has published four collections of poetry with Jonathan Cape. She has won the Forward prize for best First Collection, the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Lawrence …