Taking Liberties

Taking Liberties, Leontia Flynn’ s fifth collection, emerges from the experience of being a single mother against a background of seemingly continuous crisis. Whether at home in Belfast, in arts centers or in public squares, these poems attempt to locate themselves amid the disorienting “ tyranny of the present, incessant discourse.” This is a book on the move— by highway, by railway, in the sky— as well as amid the 24-hour news cycle, heightened political anxiety, and the threat of violenc...