Description
From one of Ireland's most important poets, a collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis '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.
Author: Leontia Flynn
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.27w x 0.07d
ISBN13: 9781787334113
ISBN10: 1787334112
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Animals & Nature
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.
Author: Leontia Flynn
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.27w x 0.07d
ISBN13: 9781787334113
ISBN10: 1787334112
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Family
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Animals & Nature
About the Author
Leontia Flynn was born in County Down in 1974. Her first book These Days (2004) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and saw her named one of twenty 'Next Generation' poets by the Poetry Book Society. Her second collection, Drives, won the 2008 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and a major Individual Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Her third collection, Profit and Loss, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. She was awarded the Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry in 2013 and the AWB Vincent American Ireland Fund Literary Award for 2014.