Flynn has written about family and psychological inheritance, as well as about her father's Alzheimer's disease.[3] Her poems also sometimes address technology. She has described the sonnets in Drives as ‘wikipedia poems’.[4]
Critical reception
Flynn's work has been favourably reviewed by writers and critics. Tom Paulin wrote "smart as a whip, lyrical, always on point, Leontia Flynn's poems are the real, right thing."[5] In The Irish Times, Philip Coleman posited that Flynn's place as one of the strongest and most skilful poetic voices of her generation.[6]
In The Observer, where The Radio was Book of the Month, Kate Kellaway wrote: "Anybody with an interest in poetry should be reading Leontia Flynn. Those with no interest should be reading her too: she has what it takes to overcome resistance… I kept returning to poems for the sheer pleasure of them – no slog involved."[7]