Leeanne Quinn

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

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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.

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...

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.

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.
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Congratulations, Martina! 🌱🌻

Thank you Lawrence 🤗❤️🌱

Thank you Paul 🌱

Aw, thank you Sasha 🤗🤗🤗 xx

Thank you Paul 🌊

Thank you so much Nicholas 🌱

Thank you Martina 🌱

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. 🌔🌊🏙️🌱

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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 👀

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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/

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...

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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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

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. 🌱

Huge congratulations Róisín: it was such a pleasure to read and spend time with your work. 🌱🌻🪶

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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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.

Thank you Sasha! 🥰🥰🙏🍃

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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‘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

Thank you Ellen 🙏🍃❤️

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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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!!!

'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! 🩶

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.

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!!

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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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

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