Landscape with Question

'Landscape with Question is a profound and painterly meditation on perception and proportion. Through the study of modernist imagery, Quinn has created an original and expansive philosophy of time and space in poetry. This miraculous book gradually reveals itself to be the work of a poet of emotional grandeur and lyric precision.'
Sasha Dugdale

'Who is this "I" that appears relentlessly in Landscape with Question? Like the multitude of ghosts that makes up the "you" in Kim Hyesoon's Autobiography of Death, Leeanne Quinn's "I" is also a multitude, a multitude of eyes that "surely look" and paint the geography of being "among the evidence" of "things under things and things inside things." Quinn's geography of evidence captures the inseparable physiognomy of psyches and places-it's impossible to unlock or unlook at Quinn's vividly time-filled landscapes. Quinn has created something immense and remarkable. Every poem in Landscape with Question haunts me, each a siren call "from here to here to here.'
Don Mee Choi

'Here are provocative meditations, not just on the painter's illumination of depth and distance, the juxtaposition of live presence and artefact, inside a flat canvas. There is time, its length in life and history. And, again, place (Drogheda, Europe) and perspective:

How long had I been counting steeples
from the walls of the old fort?

Such openings on the world light up our thoughts by their sheer originality, and how they are tethered to real places; they validate our existence in space and time.'
Eilean Ni Chuilleanain

'Leeanne Quinn's subtle and deeply-intelligent poems ask us to think about time and perception, the small notations of self in the world that settle in a story or a scene. In doing so, Quinn invents a new idiom of speaking with, alongside, and through other lives and texts and images in the landscape of memory and imagination. This is a profound meditation, that pays homage to its touchstones, notably Nano Reid's paintings and Ingeborg Bachmann's philosophical interrogations of language and women's lives. But it is also a book fresh and clear, entirely of itself. The poems haunt and reconfigure being with deftness and care.'
Deryn Rees-Jones