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Justin Quinn

Justin Quinn was born in in 1968 and educated at Trinity College. He teaches at the University of Western Bohemia and the in the Czech Republic.

He has written two critical monographs on American poetry, and his most recent book of criticism is the Cambridge Introduction to Modern (2008). He also translates Czech poetry and From the Interior: Selected Poems 1995-2005 by Petr Borkovec appeared from Seren in 2008. Early collections of poetry are The ‘O’o’a’a’ Bird (1995) and Privacy (1999), both from Carcanet.

He has published three collections with The Gallery Press, Fuselage (2002), Waves and Trees (2006) and Close Quarters (2011). At present he is working on translations of the Czech poet Bohuslav Reynek, and writing a critical book on transnational poetry.

Read ‘Café Slavia’ by Justin Quinn

Close Quarters

A TLS Book of the Year, 2011

For the first time since his debut in 1995 Justin Quinn in this, his fifth collection, turns his careful gaze on Ireland, from the 1980s to the present, and especially on Blackrock in County Dublin where he grew up.

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