{"product_id":"taking-liberties-everyone-should-be-reading-her-observer-9781787334113","title":"Taking Liberties: ‘Everyone should be reading","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis - from one of Ireland's most important poets\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everyone should be reading her' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOBSERVER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the most accomplished poets of her generation'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGUARDIAN\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnybody with an interest in poetry should be reading Leontia Flynn. Those with no interest should be reading her too\u003c\/b\u003e: 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 *\u003cbr\u003eFlynn captures the tension between poetry as a personal impulse for freedom, and the human tethering to world events…\u003cb\u003e A thought-provoking, calming response\u003c\/b\u003e to this 'intricate, coping life' * Financial Times, *Books of the Year* *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe real thing\u003c\/b\u003e -- Michael Longley, author of The Slain Birds\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most original and accomplished poets of her generation\u003c\/b\u003e * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the most strikingly original and exciting poetic voices \u003c\/b\u003eto have emerged from Northern Ireland since the extraordinary debut by Muldoon thirty-five years ago... \u003cb\u003eShe doesn't put a foot wrong on the page\u003c\/b\u003e -- Fran Brearton, The Great War in Irish Poetry\u003cbr\u003eSurefooted and unsettling, Leontia Flynn's poems negotiate the cracks that lie below the surfaces of things. \u003cb\u003eReading them, we see the world differently\u003c\/b\u003e -- Ciaran Carson, author of Belfast Confetti\u003cbr\u003eA poet who is not only \u003cb\u003eone of the best writers of her generation\u003c\/b\u003e but who seems, more and more, to be\u003cb\u003e the voice of that generation\u003c\/b\u003e -- John McAuliffe, author of The Kabul Olympics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMakes 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eTaking Liberties\u003c\/i\u003e 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 *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48741520572759,"sku":"9781787334113","price":11.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taking-liberties-everyone-should-be-reading-her-observer-9781787334113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}