This new collection from award-winning Irish poet Leeanne Quinn presents a pan-European meditation on human geography and landscape.
Arvustused
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 Who is this I that appears relentlessly in Landscape with Question? Like the multitude of ghosts that makes up the you in Kim Hyesoons Autobiography of Death, Leeanne Quinns 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. Quinns geography of evidence captures the inseparable physiognomy of psyches and placesits impossible to unlock or unlook at Quinns 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 painters 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 'Leeanne Quinns 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
Leeanne Quinns debut collection of poetry, Before You (Dedalus Press, 2012), was highly commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry 2013. Her second collection, Some Lives (Dedalus Press, 2020), was noted as a Book of the Year by The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. She co-edited Romance Options: Love Poems for Today (Dedalus Press, 2022) and is the editor of Beginnings Over and Over: Four New Poets from Ireland (Dedalus Press, 2025). Her poems have been widely anthologised, appearing in The Forward Book of Poetry 2013, Windharp: Poems of Ireland Since 1916, Hold Open the Door: A Commemorative Anthology from The Ireland Chair of Poetry, and Queering The Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry. She holds a PhD in American Literature from Trinity College Dublin, and has taught contemporary poetry at LMU Munich, Germany, given guest lectures on poetry at the Highlanes Gallery (Drogheda), the University of Dortmund, the University of Stuttgart, and at the Trieste Joyce School. Originally from Drogheda and Monasterboice, Co. Louth, she has lived in Germany, Austria, and is now based in Limerick, Ireland.
