Congratulations to Vona Groarke on being selected as a Cullman Centre Fellow at the New York Public Library 2018/2019. A great honour and an exciting year ahead for Vona. https://on.nypl.org/2ti5tqL
Vona Groarke in Conversation with Olivia O’Leary: 13 March
7.00pm Tuesday 13 March Poetry Ireland, 11 Parnell Square East, Dublin 1 Tickets: €10/€8 concessions Vona Groarke’s Four Sides Full is a personal essay that opens up and out about the body, family, the past, love, beauty and solitude. The acclaimed journalist and broadcaster Olivia O’Leary is a fan of Vona’s work, describing Four Sides Full in The Irish Times Best […]
John Hewitt Birthday Reading: 25 October
John Hewitt Birthday Reading with Sasha Dugdale, Vona Groarke & Stephen Sexton 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm Wednesday 25 October The John Hewitt Bar, 51 Donegall Street, Belfast, BT1 2FH United Kingdom £8/£7 concession The John Hewitt Society presents three award-winning poets in the annual reading to mark the birth date of John Hewitt, the celebrated Belfast-born poet, in the […]
Warwick Women in Translation Award Shortlist
Congratulations to Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh whose ‘The Coast Road’ has made the shortlist of the 2017 Warwick Women in Translation award. https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/…/p…/warwick_announces_shortlist/ The Coast Road by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, translated from Irish by Michael Coady, Peter Fallon, Tom French, Alan Gillis, Vona Groarke, John McAuliffe, Medbh McGuckian, Paul Muldoon, Michelle O’Sullivan, Justin Quinn, Billy Ramsell, […]
Fierce Moon Festival: 14-17 September
The Fierce Moon – Celebrating the Work of Dermot Healy takes place from this Thursday 14th September to Sunday 17th September at The Glens Centre, Leitrim. 2.00pm – 3.00pm: Saturday 16th September: A critical discussion of Dermot Healy’s fiction and poetry. Keith Hopper, Peter Fallon, Liza Costello. Chaired by Vincent Woods. Full programme here: http://www.theglenscentre.com/…/…/07/fiercemoonprogramme.pdf
Blue Dot Festival: 7-9 July
The Blue Dot Festival takes place from 7th-9th July. An intergalactic festival of music, science, arts, culture and the exploration of space The Centre for New Writing presents readings from authors and poets in the atmospheric setting of our planetarium space. Join Geoff Ryman, John McAuliffe and others for Science and Science Fiction, Poetry at bluedot […]
July 2017 – Poem of the Month
July’s Poem of the Month Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin is reading with Vona Groarke at the West Cork Literary Festival on July 19th. Late on a summer evening . . . Late on a summer evening The houses are parting with heat And the streets are warm As a bedroom full of sleeping children The wheels […]
West Cork Literary Festival: 14-21 July
West Cork Literary Festival, Bantry, Cork — July 14th to 21st. Ireland Chair of Poetry, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, and former Poetry Ireland editor Vona Groarke come together for a reading on July 19th. Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Vona Groarke Reading 6:30pm Wednesday 19th July Maritime Hotel, Bantry, Cork Adm: €16
June 2017 – Poem of the Month
Congratulations to Vona Groarke on winning the Pigott Poetry Prize at Listowel Writers’ Week Away I babysit by Skype, breakfast to their lunch, lunch to their dinner. I straighten uniforms, ask French, nag music practice, argue Friends, trim their Bebo access. I touch their silky faces on my screen. I am three thousand miles ago, […]
Louis de Paor ‘Poems of Repossession’: 13 May
Poems of Repossession The Irish World Heritage Centre and The Centre for New Writing at The University of Manchester are delighted to bring to Manchester a unique and exciting poetry event, showcasing the best in modern and contemporary Irish language poetry and poetry in bilingual Irish-English translation. 6.00pm Saturday 13 May Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester […]
