Taking Liberties: ‘Everyone should be reading her’ Observer (Cape Poetry) - Softcover

Flynn, Leontia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787334112 ISBN 13: 9781787334113

Verlag: Jonathan Cape, 2023

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A collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis - from one of Ireland's most important poets

'Everyone should be reading her'
OBSERVER

'One of the most accomplished poets of her generation'
GUARDIAN

These poems emerge from the experience of being a single mother in Belfast, and against a background of seemingly continuous crisis. Political upheaval and anxiety, violence and death are all registered in these poems, which ask questions about where independence is balanced by our relationships with others, and where our inner lives meet the globally connected world.

These are poems about cities - living, travelling and working in cities, getting sick and dying in cities - but also about retreating from all that: to her daughter at home, the budgie, cat and tortoise, or escaping to the park, the municipal pool, the Irish countryside, Newfoundland, or Paris, or into a Nina Simone song.

This is a necessary book - a book very much of our time - with a consistent tone that is brave and bleak, but which also carries with it some much-needed humour, and a wealth of beautiful writing.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jonathan Cape
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1787334112
• ISBN 13: 9781787334113
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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