"".In "The Irish Times", Philip Coleman posited that Flynn's place as one of the strongest and most skillful poetic voices of her generation, Reviewing 'Profit and Loss', Coleman writes that ""Like Auden, she addresses important issues here in a language that is both playful and serious, and in a form that is, if not 'large enough to swim in', at least robust enough to contain the many concerns she raises in it, from the delights and torments of personal and familial memory to the function and value of poetry in (postmodern) society.""