“Book Descriptions:Taking Liberties emerges from the experience of being a single mother in Belfast, trying to hold down a highly stressful job as a university lecturer, teaching classes online in the pandemic, while home-schooling her daughter - all without any emotional support and surrounded by violence, illness and death.
These are poems about cities - living, travelling and working in cities, getting sick and dying in cities - but also about retreating from all that: to her daughter at home, the budgie, cat and tortoise, or escaping to the park, the municipal pool, the Irish countryside, Newfoundland, or Paris, or into a Nina Simone song.
This is a necessary book - a book very much of our time - with a consistent tone that is brave and bleak, but which also carries with it some much-needed humour, and - as always with Leontia Flynn - a wealth of beautiful writing.” DRIVE
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