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Leontia Flynn at The Winchester Poetry Festival
Winchester celebrates National Poetry Day and the launch of the third Winchester Poetry Festival with a specially commissioned poem by the award-winning Irish writer Leontia Flynn (pictured). Artistic co-director Sasha Dugdale said: "We invited Leontia Flynn to write a commissioned poem for the Festival and she has come up with a fantastic piece for us."
Flynn will be reading her new poem and other work at the Festival during the evening of Friday 5 October, where she is showcased with Paul Batchelor and Gillian Clarke, all three strikingly lyrical poets, whose taut and intelligent poetry wrestles with the interior life.
The opening lines of Flynn's new poem,
'This house believes
that poetry is pointless.'
are particularly relevant, as the poem's debut coincides with National Poetry Day. This year's National Poetry Day has 'change' as its theme and Flynn's work often questions how individuals can forge a place for themselves in the wider world.
Also for 2018, Sophie Herxheimer has been appointed as the Festival's artist/poet-in-residence, based at Winchester's Discovery Centre. Sophie will also perform a short set before the final event of the Winchester Poetry Festival. Those who've booked for Holly McNish at 6.0
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These Days is the debut collection of poems by 29 year old Northern Irish poet Leontia Flynn -who this week was named as one of the twenty 'Next Generation Poets'.
Like many of the new poets her style is light and conversational which gives the poems a deceptively simple feel.
Her subjects range from memories of childhood, love, her mother and father, student life and urban life.
Some of the poems seem a little too clever and too slight. For example, in the opening poem Naming It she compares a moment of clarity to the difference between an avocado and an aubergine in her friend's 'well-stocked' fridge (?). Then in Two Crossings - a poem about an Irish Sea crossing she is fluent but the ending is remarkably inconclusive: 'we are half asleep with this rocking as the boat approaches the harbour and home.'
When her themes are stronger, however, she seems more successful. The two poems about her father Eeps (about his wiring skills) and Mangles are assured - as is the stately and solemn contemplation of time passing These Days and Pet Deaths about the loss of her terrier.
However, perhaps the finest poem in the collection is Without Me (no 5). (For some strange reason the