sábado, 4 de enero de 2025

“The Radio”, by Leontia Flynn

At moments, you are taken to Belfast 1970’s. If you want so, this would be a very good choice. Reading the poem The Radio –which gives its title to the whole poetry book– resonates in your mind like the troubles of the violent years, where fire was on the streets. Today is different; as the book –her fourth–, which show us also the consequences of the Internet in our lives or includes quotations from the Wikipedia. Flynn works at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s University (Belfast) and belongs to a new generation of poets who I could not recommend enough. It is by Published by Wake Forest University Press (2018).


“The Radio”, by Leontia Flynn

At moments, you are taken to Belfast 1970’s. If you want so, this would be a very good choice. Reading the poem The Radio –which gives its ...