These Days by Leontia Flynn

These Days by Leontia Flynn

These Days represents one of the most strikingly original debuts in recent years and won the 2004 Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Leontia Flynn - still in her twenties - writes about Belfast and the north of Ireland with a precision and tenderness that is completely fresh. While her subject matter ranges from memories of childhood to the instabilities of adulthood, from the raw domestic to the restless pull of 'elsewhere', her theme throughout is a search for physical and mental well-being, for a way to live a life. A number of exquisitely moving poems about her father highlight her extraordinary gifts: her exact ear, her heightened, filmic sensibility, her bittersweet tone - all of which combine in poems that are accessible but not obvious, witty and serious, delicate but tough, and always surprising. These Days is not simply a first book of great promise; it marks the arrival of a new, exciting and important voice.

Bursting with tender, witty, punchy poems about the tender aftermath of a love affair-- Christina Patterson * Independent *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780224071970
ISBN 10	0224071971
Title	These Days
Author	Leontia Flynn
Series	Cape Poetry Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2004-04-08
Number of pages	64
Prizes	Winner of Felix Dennis Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection 2004
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