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Justin Quinn, Luljeta
Lleshanaku & Philip Gross
Friday 26th March at 6.30pm €14/10/8
Justin Quinn
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Justin Quinn was born in Blackrock,
Dublin in 1968. He received a
doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin,
and in 1994 he moved to Prague,
where he is now a lecturer in American
literature at Charles University. He is
the author of four poetry collections:
The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird (Carcanet, 1995,
shortlisted for the Forward Prize for
Best First Collection), Privacy (Carcanet,
1999), Fuselage (Gallery Books, 2002)
and Waves & Trees (Gallery Books,
2006). UCD Press published his critical
studies Gathered Beneath The Storm:
Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community
(2002) and American Errancy: Empire,
Sublimity and Modern Poetry (2006).
He was a founding editor of the poetry
journal Metre. He has translated the
work of several Czech writers, including
Petr Borkovec and Ivan Blatný. His
new collection of poetry, In Marble, is
forthcoming.
“...a reminder of how stunningly
poetry can say new things about an
unlyrical world.”
The Irish Times
Luljeta Lleshanaku
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Luljeta Lleshanaku was born in 1968
in Elbasan, Albania, and grew up under
virtual house arrest because of her
family’s opposition to the Stalinist
dictatorship of Enver Hoxha. When she
was eventually permitted to attend
college, she studied at the University
of Tirana, and quickly began to publish
her poetry, with four collections in
Albanian appearing between 1992 and
1999. In 2002, New Directions Press
published Fresco: Selected Poetry, her
first collection in English, translated
by Henri Israeli. A new collection,
Child of Nature, was published by
New Directions this year. Lleshanaku
was the winner of the 2009 Kristal
Vilenice Prize, past recipients of which
have included Adam Zagajewski and
Zbigniew Herbert. She has been a
fellow at the International Program of
Writers at the University of Iowa and
at the University of Nevada’s Black
Mountain Institute.
“Lluljeta Lleshanaku is the real thing,
and as unexpected as an oasis behind
a mountain on the moon.”
Eliot Weinberger
Philip Gross
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Philip Gross was born in 1952 in
Cornwall and grew up in Plymouth.
He is the author of 14 books
of poetry, including Changes of
Address (2001, Poetry Book Society
Special Commendation) and Mappa
Mundi (2003, Poetry Book Society
Recommendation), both from Bloodaxe.
His most recent collection, The Water
Table (Bloodaxe, 2009) won this
year’s T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry. The
judging panel, chaired by poet Andrew
Motion, praised what it described as
a “concentrated and keen-eyed and
patient” collection with “real lyrical
confidence”. He has also written
extensively for opera, radio and for
children. He lives in Penarth, South
Wales, and is Professor of Creative
Writing at Glamorgan University.
“Haunting, vividly imagined poems,
whose fierce intelligence is gentled by
the sonorous grace of the language...”
The Guardian
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