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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Many thanks to @claraelenadice.bsky.social for beginning what could be a thread of other work relating to this lesser known archaic epic about a few complicated women #Odyssey

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Join us next Tuesday for the launch of Leeanne Quinn's Landscape with Question! Tickets and more info:⬇️ www.carcanet.co.uk/events/lands...

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Landscape with Question is published tomorrow. Here is a piece I wrote on the book for the Carcanet blog. 🌱❤️

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Delighted to be launching my new book from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in Cork, along with @leeannequinn.bsky.social's phenomenal Landscape with Question. Waterstone's, July 28th, 6.30 💙

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Ellen Dillon @drnollid.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I'm so proud of this one, and happy to see it in the world. Available now from Broken Sleep. There will be a launch event with @leeannequinn.bsky.social 's wonderful Landscape with Question at Waterstone's Cork on July 28th 🎣

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Say hello to our June titles!☀️ Get 15% off with code JUNEBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/new-titles-o... 🌳Landscape with Question by Leeanne Quinn 🚗Drunken Driving by Martina Evans 🧡New and Collected Poems by Jeffrey Wainwright Pre-order now with code JUNEBOOKS15: www.carcanet.co.uk/new-titles-o...

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The Poetry Society @poetrysociety.org.uk · 10/05/2026

Congratulations to all shortlisted in the poetry category of the Wales Book of the Year Award: ⭐Deryn Rees-Jones ⭐ Laura Wainwright ⭐Jeremy Over ⭐Carwyn Eckley ⭐Jo Heyde ⭐Mererid Hopwood Llongyfarchiadau! www.literaturewales.org/our-projects...

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Wales Book of the Year Award 2026 Shortlist - Literature Wales

Wales Book of the Year Award 2026 Shortlist To read more about the Wales Book of The Year 2026 Shortlist, click below on our online booklet.

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

And here’s another book that I have read in awe and with pleasure. Leeanne Quinn’s Landscape with Questions @carcanet.bsky.social

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I am so grateful to Don Mee Choi, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Sasha Dugdale, & Deryn Rees-Jones for spending time with Landscape with Question & giving these incredible endorsements. ❤️ Landscape with Question is published next month by @carcanet.bsky.social www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

‘Who is this “I” that appears relentlessly in Landscape with Question? Like the multitude of ghosts that makes up the “you” in Kim Hyesoon’s Autobiography of Death, Leeanne Quinn’s “I” is also a multitude, a multitude of eyes that “surely look” and paint the geography of being “among the evidence” of “things under things and things inside things.” Quinn’s geography of evidence captures the inseparable physiognomy of psyches and places—it’s impossible to unlock or unlook at Quinn’s vividly time-filled landscapes. Quinn has created something immense and remarkable. Every poem in Landscape with Question haunts me, each a siren call “from here to here to here.’
Don Mee Choi

‘Here are provocative meditations, not just on the painter’s illumination of depth and distance, the juxtaposition of live presence and artefact, inside a flat canvas. There is time, its length in life and history. And, again, place (Drogheda, Europe) and perspective:

How long had I been counting steeples
from the walls of the old fort?

Such openings on the world light up our thoughts by their sheer originality, and how they are tethered to real places; they validate our existence in space and time.’
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

‘Landscape with Question is a profound and painterly meditation on perception and proportion. Through the study of modernist imagery, Quinn has created an original and expansive philosophy of time and space in poetry. This miraculous book gradually reveals itself to be the work of a poet of emotional grandeur and lyric precision.’
Sasha Dugdale

'Leeanne Quinn’s subtle and deeply-intelligent poems ask us to think about time and perception, the small notations of self in the world that settle in a story or a scene. In doing so, Quinn invents a new idiom of speaking with, alongside, and through other lives and texts and images in the landscape of memory and imagination. This is a profound meditation, that pays homage to its touchstones, notably Nano Reid's paintings and Ingeborg Bachmann's philosophical interrogations of language and women's lives. But it is also a book fresh and clear, entirely of itself. The poems haunt and reconfigure being with deftness and care.'
Deryn Rees-Jones

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Martina Dalton @martinadalton.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

My debut poetry collection, ‘Midnight at the Saltmarsh’, will be published in May by @thegallerypress.bsky.social To have this beautiful Paul Henry painting, ‘Incoming Tide, Achill’, as the cover is beyond my wildest dreams! 🌕 🌊 Available to pre-order ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ gallerypress.com/product/midn...

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I am so grateful to Tom Reid and the Reid Estate for permission to use a portion of Nano Reid's monotype "Landscape" on the cover of Landscape with Question, available to pre-order soon from @carcanet.bsky.social

Cover image for Leeanne Quinn, Landscape with Question, which features a close up of a monotype by Nano Reid. It is largely cream and black, with a tiny dot of blue in the center.

A monotype by Nano Reid (1905-1981) titled "Landscape"

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I have two poems in the new @pnreview.bsky.social 288. One is a Propertius (via Grigory Dashevsky). You can read it here: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/two-...

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PN Review Print and Online Poetry Magazine - Two Poems - Sasha Dugdale - PN Review 288

One of the outstanding poetry journals of our time.

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Publication day for @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social edition of The Disappearing Act, a beautiful reflection on grief and identity in a time of conflict by Maria Stepanova.

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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Poets! This is your 🚨last🚨 week to book Leeanne Quinn's 8-week poetry course, kicking off online next Wednesday! This promises to be a thought-provoking and generative programme for poets at any stage of their career. Book here: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/poet...

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Poetry and Source: Prompt and Departure with Leeanne Quinn - Irish Writers Centre

8-week online course for poets exploring form, subject, and inspiration with Leeanne Quinn. Starts Wednesday 4 February 2026, 7.00pm - 9.00pm.

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

I'm facilitating an 8 week course on Poetry & Source at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social from Feb 4. We'll explore how to find, adapt, integrate & depart from the sources that inspire us. If you think this would be useful to your practice, the link is below. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/poet...

Advertisement for the Irish Writer's Centre Course: Poetry and Source: Prompt and Departure with Leeanne Quinn; starting Wednesday February 4, 2026 for 8 weeks.

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

My third collection, Landscape with Question, will be published in June 2026 with @carcanet.bsky.social. It started out as a biography in verse of Nano Reid, then became something else entirely. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱 www.carcanet.co.uk/978180017561...

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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Did you know that it's our 35th anniversary in 2026? 🥳 To celebrate, we've recently launched a host of 35 brand-new courses from screenwriting, poetry, comedy, and more Check them out and get booking below 👀 irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

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Irish Writers Centre @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

35 new courses for 35 years of the Irish Writers Centre. We're delighted to unveil our first batch of new creative writing courses from January 2026 onwards, covering a huge range of interests and for writers at every stage of their journey: irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I have co-authored a chapter on Free Verse in this Handbook of Poetic Forms, ed. @jessicabundschuh.bsky.social & Irmtraud Huber. Thank you to my kind & enthusiastic co-author Jessica for weaving my thoughts as a practitioner through the chapter. If you would like a pdf, I am happy to share. 🌱

The cover of the De Gruyter Handbook of Poetic Forms, Edited by: Jessica Bundschuh and Irmtraud Huber. The cover is various shades of blue, and the book sits on a wooden floor.

A photo of the first page of Chapter 16 of this book, titled "Free Verse" and written by Leeanne Quinn and Jessica Bundschuh. The abstract reads:

As the historical evolution of free verse demonstrates, the form has emerged – with its various possible antecedents from Homer to T. S. Eliot, Sasha Dugdale and Diane Seuss – as a reaction to the constraints of stricture and tradition. Such historical origins that treat free verse as a reactionary form have often set it in opposition to formalist verse, with the result that free verse has, at times, been labelled as shapeless and uncomposed. Such readings of free verse overlook the form’s capacity to incorporate, despite its absence of conventional meter and rhyme, the vital quality of poetic tension or ‘traction.’ This contribution considers Irish poet Leeanne Quinn, through a meditation on her craft and process of free-verse making, as a poet whose work seeks out opportunities for compositional resistance appropriate to the needs of each particular free-verse poem, like “Water,” where Quinn incorporates the formal restraints of caesura and enjambment to underpin a retrospective-prospective structure.

A photo of the second page of this same chapter, where my contribution to the chapter commences with a discussion of the Politics of Form. The Chapter is available online here: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111296371-017/html

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I was precarious for a long time & in three different countries. I have a lot to say on the topic, so it's nice to start saying some of this tomorrow at the International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, Centre for Irish Studies, CU Prague. irishpostgradprague.ff.cuni.cz/programme/ke...

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Keynote Event: ECR & Career Building Panel – The International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies

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Liz Quirke @lizquirke.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

The poet Ellen Dillon read at O’Bhéal go Béal tonight to a packed house. What an artist. Master of craft and scholar of poetry. Proof that good writing takes time and effort. Excited for her next book. Properly achieved poetry tonight. No short cuts.

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Sasha Dugdale @sashadugdale.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Great & wide-ranging review of The Strongbox, alongside Gboyega Odubanjo and Jen Campbell, by @zoebrigley.bsky.social & now online @magmapoetry.bsky.social – I’m so grateful for the review & so pleased when The Strongbox reaches a reader. @carcanet.bsky.social magmapoetry.com/wp-content/u...

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

‘I don’t believe in the unspeakable or untranslatable. That’s imperial logic and privilege – empire bombs incessantly, and then says the deaths are unspeakable? No, we need to speak about every bomb, every destroyed body, every hour that these bombs landed’–Don Mee Choi, Chicago Review of Books 68.1

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I am happy to be included in the Versopolis listing of poets from Ireland, but more than anything, I am profoundly grateful to @maryodonnell.bsky.social for writing such a generous and incisive short essay on my work. Thank you so much Mary 🙏🍃 www.versopolis.com/poet/580/lee...

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Leeanne Quinn | Versopolis Poetry

Versopolis Review is a pan-European cultural and humanities magazine.

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Anyone with even a passing interest in Beckett needs to read Emilie Morin's biography of Suzanne Dumesnil: it's free to download for the next two weeks. This is feminist restorative history in action: read this book!!!

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Róisín Leggett Bohan @leggettbohan.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

'Beginnings Over and Over' are present in every moment. How nourishing it was to read with poetry pals @ilfdublin.bsky.social in celebration of this gorgeous book, holistically edited @leeannequinn.bsky.social Gratitude to the lovely humans @ILFD and Dedalus Press. See you in Cork on the 27th! 🩶

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Georgina Nugent @georginanugent.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Very happy to share the speaker list for "Modernist Life Righting: Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st Century", a two day conference I've co-organized with Ronan Crowley. Taking place later this month at @goetheuni.bsky.social. Look at this amazing lineup of speakers!!

Modernist Life Righting

Corrective Self-Portraiture in the 20th and 21st century

Institute of English and American Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt

22-23 May 2025

Lauren Arrington (University of South Florida)

Scarlett Baron (University College London)

Julie Bates (Trinity College Dublin)

Dúnlaith Bird (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Laura Cernat (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Ronan Crowley (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Julia Dallaway (University of Oxford)

Anne Fogarty (University College Dublin)

Megan Girdwood (University of Edinburgh)

Leeann Lane (Dublin City University)

Zachary Leader (University of Roehampton)

Lianna Mark (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Emilie Morin (University of York)

Georgina Nugent (University College Cork)

Leeanne Quinn (poet-creative)

Sam Thompson (Queen's University Belfast)

Feargal Whelan (Trinity College Dublin)

For more information about the conference or to register, please contact Georgina Nugent georginanugent@ucc.ie or Ronan Crowley crowley@em.uni-frankfurt.de.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

A sorrowful reflection on the ways in which a place can hold a ‘magnetic field of memory’, Don Mee Choi explores South Korea’s violent recent history in a poetry of grief that is both personal and collective Mirror Nation is out now in the UK and Europe 💫 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/mirr...

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Great review of @eireannmor.bsky.social's "mesmerising portrait of the silent patterns that paint our world": observer.co.uk/culture/book...

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Poetry book of the month: Mind your language

Éireann Lorsung’s vibrant debut delights in the slipperiness of the world and the words we use to capture it

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Thank you to Mary O'Donnell, Enda Wyley & Peter Sirr for their generous praise of the work of Mai Ishikawa, Emer Lyons, Róisín Leggett Bohan & Cal O'Reilly in Beginnings Over and Over. Please take a listen to the Books For Breakfast podcast so you can hear just how brilliant these poets are 🌱

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77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry

Books for Breakfast · Episode

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Carcanet Press @carcanet.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Congratulations to Sasha Dugdale, who has been shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award 2025 with her collection The Strongbox! Well done to Sasha, and all the other shortlisted writers and publishers! 🎉 www.carcanet.co.uk/sasha-dugdal...

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Leeanne Quinn @leeannequinn.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Very happy to have a poem in last Saturday's Irish Times 🏭🙏

Poem: Landscape with Factory
By Leeanne Quinn

You can see a lot from the hill, the grey breadth
of the factory, its red lights, always on.
And other hills beyond this one, where the earth
is also red. I remember flying over a blue
lake. It could have been the last thing I saw
or the image I returned to after something else
occurred. The water in the lake
behaves in a similar way, it warms in summer
while its layers grow cool, no hidden currents
just the wind in the clear.
It has a cold mind, like the mind flying over –
empty of earthly things. I know the grey smoke
makes it difficult to breathe, in small ways
I don’t yet recognise. In summer the leaves
hide much of the grey — small particles
are still borne on the air. I’m ashamed of this
but tell no one — I can hold my breath
when it matters most.

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And Other Stories @andotherstories.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Happy publication day to Don Mee Choi, whose extraordinary National Book Award-winning work DMZ Colony is out today in the UK and Europe 💫 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/dmz-...

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