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Beginnings Over and Over: Four New Poets presents a significant selection of work by four new poets at the beginning of their writing journeys. Selected by Leanne Quinn from the submissions for the 2024 Dedalus Press Mentoring Scheme, the four poets - Mai Ishikawa, Róisín Leggett Bohan, Emer Lyons, Cal O'Reilly are, in Ouinn's words, writers who are ""willing to risk, willing to discover, willing to alter and undermine'

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Leeanne Quinn was born in Drogheda in 1978, and grew up there and in Monasterboice, Co. Louth. She studied at University College Dublin, University College Cork, and holds a PhD in American Literature from Trinity College Dublin. Her first collection of poetry, Before You, was published by Dedalus Press in 2012 and highly commended in the Forward Prize for Poetry 2013. Her second collection, Some Lives, was published in 2020 and noted as a ‘Book of the Year’ by The Irish Times and The Irish Independent. She is the recipient of three Arts Council Bursary awards, most recently in 2021. Her poems have been widely anthologised, appearing in Queering The Green: Post-2000 Queer Irish Poetry (Lifeboat Press, 2021), Hold Open the Door (UCD Press, 2020), Windharp: Poems of Ireland Since 1916 (Penguin, 2015), and The Forward Book of Poetry 2013 (Faber, 2012). With Joseph Woods, she co-edited Romance Options, an anthology of contemporary love poems from Ireland (Dedalus Press, 2022). Mai Ishikawa is a Japanese theatre maker, translator, poet and performer based in Dublin. She has translated several plays into Japanese for full productions. She won the Unohana Prize in the 8th Kyoto Writing Competition and was shortlisted in the Westival International Poetry Competition 2024. Her poems have appeared in The Stony Thursday Book, Banshee, Channel, Ragaire, The Storms and Ink Sweat & Tears. She incorporates poetry in her theatre work, combining poetic dialogue with physical movement, to suspend time and find the extraordinary in the ordinary. Róisín Leggett Bohan is a writer from Cork. In 2024, she was runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award and Listowel Best Poem Award and was a finalist in the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. Her work appears in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Magma, Aesthetica, The Pomegranate London, and more. Róisín was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series, 2022 and the Seamus Heaney Summer School, 2024. She is a UCC graduate, and HOWL New Irish Writing co-editor. Róisín is grateful for a literature bursary from The Arts Council of Ireland and an artist bursary from Cork City Arts.

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