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Vona Groarke

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Image Credit: Steve Pyke

Ireland Professor of Poetry

Writer in Residence
St John's College, Cambridge

Vona Groarke announced as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry

Read the announcement here

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Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara

Winner of the Michel Déon Prize 2024

Available Here

Infinity Pool

New Collection of poems out now

Available Here

NEWS

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EVENTS

- Sunday 13th July: Gallery Goes to West Cork Literary Festival. Reading with Tom French and Aifric MacAodha. 5pm, Marino Church, Bantry. 

- Sunday July 27th: Reading at Yeats International Summer School. 8pm, Methodist Church, Wine St., Sligo.

- Friday 1st August: Gallery Goes to John Hewitt Summer School. Reading with Polina Cosgrave and Kelly Michels. 11:15am, the Marketplace Theatre, Armagh. 

BOOKS

About

Vona Groarke has published fourteen books with The Gallery Press, including nine original poetry collections, and two translations from the Irish, most recently Woman of Winter (2023), a version of the much-loved Irish poem usually known in English as, 'The Lament of the Hag of Beare'. She published Hereafter: the Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara with New York University Press (2022). A Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library 2018-19; former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and selector for the UK's Poetry Book Society, she has taught at the University of Manchester since 2007. She is the current Writer in Residence at St John's College, Cambridge, and otherwise lives in Co. Sligo in the West of Ireland.

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