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Leontia Flynn
These Days Cape Poetry £8.00

	Leontia Flynn’s poems cover a wonderful range of subjects. She writes movingly about her father but is terrific at simply tugging away at a subject until it releases poetry. ‘Bed Poem’ is a lovely example; pleasingly direct and still full of that sense of wonder that young poets in particular seem to possess. These are poems to move from room to room reading, just as we imagine they might have been written, by a poet remembering and discovering the world. Click here to return to the list of Next Generation Poets

Naming It

Five years out of school and preachy
with booklearning, it is good to be discovered
as a marauding child.
To think the gloomiest most baffled
misadventures might lead so suddenly
to a clearing – as when a friend
taking me to her well-stocked fridge says:
look
this is an avocado and this
is an aubergine.

from These Days

Biography
Leontia Flynn was born in Belfast in 1974. She is currently finishing a PhD at Queen’s College. She was awarded an Eric Gregory Award in 2001. These Days is her first poetry collection.