CLOSE QUARTERS - Jacek Gutorow in conversation with Justin Quinn
CLOSE QUARTERS - Jacek Gutorow in conversation with Justin Quinn

Summary/Abstract: Justin Quinn was born in Dublin in 1968 and educated at Trinity College. He lives in Prague where he teaches at the University of Western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. He has published eight collections of poetry: The 'O'o'a'a' Bird (Carcanet, 1995), Privacy (Carcanet, 1999), Fuselage (Gallery Press, 2002), Waves and Trees (Gallery Press, 2006), The Months (2009), Close Quarters (Gallery Press, 2011), Early House (Gallery Press, 2015) and Shallow Seas (Gallery Press, 2020). He has written four books of criticism including The Cambridge Introduction to Modern Irish Poetry (2008). He also translates Czech poetry. His translations include Petr Borkovec, From the Interior: Selected Poems 1995-2005 (2008), Bohuslav Reynek, The Well at Morning, (2017) and Jan Zábrana, The Lesser Histories (2022). His poetry has appeared in the Yale Review, TLS, Poetry Review, Irish Times, New Yorker, Poetry Ireland Review, Souvislosti, The Literateur, Body and the Irish Review among others. Tomáš Fürstenzeller translated his poetry into Czech (Vlny a stromy, 2009). His novel, Mount Merrion, was published in September 2013. He was a founding editor of the poetry journal Metre and has published two critical studies, Gathered Beneath the Storm: Wallace Stevens, Nature and Community, and American Errancy: Empire, Sublimity and Modern Poetry. He is married to Tereza Limanová and they have two sons, Finbar and Manus.

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