Three new poems by Vona Groarke appeared in the current issue of The Hudson Review. ‘Sundial Metaphors’; ‘Still Life in Marble’; and ‘Phrase Book for the Subjunctive, Lesson 1’ Sundial Metaphors Morning takes from the bottom...
Published on Cambridge University Press’s website Poetry in an age of Coronavirus My friend’s mother died on Wednesday in a Dublin hospital, of C-19. None of the usual obsequies are available to me now: I can’t send flowers or go to the funeral. What’s left to...
Eileán Ní Chuilleanáin is this year’s winner of the Irish Times Poetry Now Award for her 2019 collection, The Mother House. Poems in The Mother House “are rich and generous and rewarding. Reading them expands our understanding, they remind us of what poetry can...
We’re celebrating International Women’s Day 2020 by giving 25% Off* all titles (plus P&P) by our women writers: Sara Berkeley, Rosita Boland, Marina Carr, Vona Groarke, Kerry Hardie, Aifric Mac Aodha, Medbh McGuckian, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Nuala Ní...
Five poets have been named on the shortlist for this year’s Irish Times Poetry Now award. The poets in contention for the €2000 prize are Jane Clarke, for When The Tree Falls (Bloodaxe), Vona Groarke for Double Negative (Gallery Press), Medbh McGuckian for Marine...
