Liz Quirke

Liz Quirke is a poet and scholar from Kerry. Salmon Poetry has published two collections of her work: The Road, Slowly in 2018 and How We Arrive in Winter in 2021. She has a PhD through Creative Practice in Poetry on Queer Kinship in Contemporary Poetry from University of Galway. She is one of the founders of Pendemic.ie, a social history and literary project that has been archived by UCD and funded by the Arts Council of Ireland. Quirke’s poems have been described in The Irish Times as “hard-won poems that rise out of a larger silence, re-doing the lyrics of Máire Mhac an tSaoi and Eavan Boland for 21st-century Ireland” and How We Arrive In Winter has been described as “brilliant and deeply moving” and an “affecting and assured book, written from the frontlines of mourning, but attuned, too, to the possibility of a future as in The Promise of Sweetbread which ends with the epiphany that ‘there has never been/ such a call/ for light/ as this.”

I teach undergraduate and post-graduate workshops in Creative Writing (Poetry). My academic interests are in poetry and poetics, queer poetics, page versus performance, contemporary anglophone poetry, feminism, queer theory, kinship, death studies, contemporary Irish writing, contemporary American poetry and other related fields.

At undergraduate level, I supervise both creative and critical BA dissertations and teach:

EN2103 Special Topics in Literature and Culture

EN3112 Poetry Workshop

EN3003 Queer Kinship in Contemporary Literature

At Postgraduate Level, I supervise MA dissertations and teach: 

EN6031 Poetry Workshop

EN6060 Narrative Poetry

I am open to discussions regarding potential PhD research topics.

Research Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship for Doctoral Thesis

University of Galway Doctoral Scholarship

Arts Council of Ireland Award for Pendemic Social History Project

Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award

• Lucy Holme, Creative Writing, Poetry

'Muse is a Feminine Noun'– A Poetic Interrogation of the Creative Muse Narrative from Myth to Modernity

co-supervised with Dr Martín Veiga

• Molly Twomey, Creative Writing, Poetry 

A Collection of Poetry on Recovery, Resilience and the Commodification of Trauma

Funding: CACSSS Excellence Scholarship, Research Ireland Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship

co-supervised with Dr Alan Gibbs

• Maria-Sophia Christodolou, Creative Writing, Poetry

Symptoms, hearing, and resisting intergenerational trauma in the Cypriot diaspora through the transformative agency of poetry in the collection, Where-it-is

co-supervised with Dr Bahriye Kemal