Celebrated as an unusually original poet—nervy, refreshing, deceptively simple—Leontia Flynn has quickly developed into a writer of assured technical complexity and a startling acuity of perception. I
In The Radio, Leontia Flynn exercises her signature wit, formal inventiveness, bitter irony, and unique blend of vernacular speech and literary allusion. In the title poem, the radio is a portal from
This is the first-ever study of Medbh McGuckian that offers close readings of the poet's early work, then pans out to discuss her later career in order to do justice to the poet's complexities. Making
Following on from the assured day-to-day poems of her first collection, Leontia Flynn's second, Drives is a book of restless journeys - real and imaginary - interspersed with a series of sonnets on wr
In these poems, Leontia Flynn writes about Belfast and the north of Ireland. Her subject matter ranges from memories of childhood to the instabilities of adulthood, from the raw domestic to the restl
