Leanne Quinn
Leeanne Quinn is an award-winning Irish poet (born Drogheda 1978) whose collections include Before You, Some Lives, and the Carcanet-published Landscape with Question (2025).
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Aug 20, 2026
BenHOST
It is a fascinating look at the mutability of landscape and i was wondering if you could talk me through why you chose the title landscape with question
Leanne QuinnGUEST
Yeah, I guess landscape of question, like throughout the book, there's a number of poems with the landscape with motif.
Leanne QuinnGUEST
The book engages, like you say, with Nana Reid, who is an Irish modernist artist from my hometown, Drogheda.
Leanne QuinnGUEST
The poems that kind of engage with paintings and take their title from reads paintings.
Leanne QuinnGUEST
So the landscape with, I suppose, in some way subverts the motif or the trope of that kind of painting.
Leanne QuinnGUEST
And those poems are move away from the representational to, I suppose, what I could call the metaphysical.
BenHOST
What is the challenge as a poet in planning that kind of long-term recurring image or looping motif?