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 Professor in Poetry at Queen's University Belfast and was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2022.

Leontia will be introduced by Professor Fran Brearton. This event forms part of EFACIS Conference 2023 (European Federation for Associations and Centres of Irish Studies) and numbers are limited.

Contact shc@qub.ac.uk to be added to the waiting list. 

From one of Ireland's most important poets, a collection about motherhood at a time of continuous crisis

'The real thing'
MICHAEL LONGLEY

'Everyone should be reading her'
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