Leeanne Quinn
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Leeanne Quinn
@leeannequinn.bsky.social
Poet. Before You (2012) & Some Lives (2020) are published by Dedalus Press. (she/they)
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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/
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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It was the honour of my academic career to co-nominate and co-deliver (with the amazing Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh) the citation for Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin's Honorary Doctorate from @ucc.ie. ❤️

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Aosdána member and Saoi Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin awarded Honorary Doctorate of Literature by UCC - Aosdána
The trailblazing poet, scholar, editor, Saoi of Aosdána and former Ireland Professor of Poetry, Professor Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin was honoured the Honorary Doctorate by University College Cork (UCC) fo...
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November 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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. 🌱
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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This happened just now.

Pre-orders up!!! Deeply grateful to @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social and all my teachers at UCD and the kind writers who wrote the blurbs including @gagebybell.bsky.social and @martinadalton.bsky.social and so many others …

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Róisín Ní Neachtain - I, bird | Broken Sleep Books
Róisín Ní Neachtain's I, bird is a fragmented, lyrical reckoning with grief, trauma, and the porous boundary between body and voice. Structured in poetic prose and verse, the collection moves between ...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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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.
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Keynote Event: ECR & Career Building Panel – The International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies
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September 18, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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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.
September 8, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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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

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August 1, 2025 at 7:11 AM
‘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
July 21, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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 🙏🍃

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Leeanne Quinn | Versopolis Poetry
Versopolis Review is a pan-European cultural and humanities magazine.
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July 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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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!!!
Congratulations to Emilie Morin on the publication of her biography of Suzanne Beckett, offering the first full portrait of this elusive figure. It is free to download for the next two weeks tinyurl.com/54n3ztmv
Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1900-1945 - Suzanne Dumesnil, Suzanne Beckett
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July 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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'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! 🩶
May 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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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!!
May 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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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 💫
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May 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Great review of @eireannmor.bsky.social's "mesmerising portrait of the silent patterns that paint our world": observer.co.uk/culture/book...
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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May 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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 🌱
77: Mary O’Donnell on new fiction and poetry
Books for Breakfast · Episode
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April 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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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! 🎉

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April 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Very happy to have a poem in last Saturday's Irish Times 🏭🙏
April 16, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Happy publication day to Don Mee Choi, whose extraordinary National Book Award-winning work DMZ Colony is out today in the UK and Europe 💫

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April 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM