Leontia Flynn

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Leontia Flynn (born 1974) is an Irish poet born in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. Flynn grew up in Ballyloughlin, south County Down, between the towns of Newcastle and Dundrum, very close to the well known Murlough Nature Reserve. After studying for a year at Trinity College Dublin, she completed a degree in English at Queen's University Belfast, followed by a Masters at Edinburgh, before returning to Belfast to write her Phd. She currently lives in Belfast with her partner and their young daughter.

Flynn won an Eric Gregory Award in 2001, and her first collection, These Days, was published in 2004. It won that year's Forward Poetry Prize for 'Best First Collection'. In the same year Flynn was named as one the Next Generation poets by the Poetry Book Society.

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  • [1] - Naming It by Leontia Flynn. (Poetry Book Society website profile)
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