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Justin Quinn
 Justin Quinn is an Irish poet and critic who was born in Dublin in 1968. He received his doc torate from Trinity College, Dublin, and now lives with his wife and sons in Prague. He is a lecturer at Charles University.
He has published four poetry collections: The 'O'o'a'a' Bird (1995), Privacy (1999), Fuselage (2002) and Waves & Trees (2006). The 'O'o'a'a' Bird was nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection.
He was a founder 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 has also translated extensively from Czech, in particular the work of Petr Borkovec, and written non-fiction prose on life in the Czech Republic for the Dublin Review.
Quinn's poetry is characterized by a sensual lushness informed by an awareness of the violence of history, as inflected by the author's experiences of living in the Czech Republic. In its mix of formalist sophistication and openness to experiment Quinn's work confounds perceptions of Irish poetry as rigidly dichotomised between formal conservatism and 1930s-derived innovation, a distinctiveness confirmed by the editorial decision to award him the single largest share of the 2004 Bloodaxe anthology The New Irish Poets.
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