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Irish Arts Center PoetryFest: 2-4 November

October 25, 2018 By Suella Holland

New York’s Irish Arts Center’s 10th Annual Poetry Fest is presented in association with Literary Hub. The Irish Arts Centre celebrates a decade of “literary revelry” (New Yorker) with esteemed poets drawn from both sides of the Atlantic in one of their favorite weekends of the year.  Friday November 2 Favorite Poems Tickets from $35, including after-party with […]

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Billy Ramsell, Irish Arts Center, Katie Raissian, Marie Howe, Maureen McLane, Michelle O'Sullivna, Natalie Diaz, Nick Laird, Nicole Sealey, PoetryFest, Stonecutter, Vona Groarke

The Heart of Summer: Derrynane House – 13 July

July 4, 2018 By Suella Holland

Olivia O’Leary presents The Heart of Summer: Derrynane House BOOK NOW Friday 13 July, 8.00pm Derrynane House, Caherdaniel, Co. Kerry Tickets: €10/€8 concessions, includes a glass of wine Enjoy a feast of music and poetry in three of Ireland’s great historic houses, introduced by Olivia O’Leary, acclaimed journalist and presenter of RTÉ Radio 1’s Poetry Programme. Produced by […]

Filed Under: Events, Readings Tagged With: Daniel O'Connell, Derrynane House, Hennessy Hall of Fame, Irish Times, Julie Feeney, Kerry, Mary Costello, Olivia O'Leary, Vona Groarke

Poets on Tour – Ballina Fringe Festival – 10 July

July 4, 2018 By Suella Holland

          The Gallery Press: Poets on Tour event in association with Ballina Fringe Festival presents poets Vona Groarke, Tom French and Eamon Grennan will bring their award-winning work to Ballina Fringe Festival on Tuesday 10 July from 7pm. Adm: €10.00 Book tickets

Filed Under: Events, Poetry Tagged With: Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina Fringe Festival, Eamon Grennan, The Gallery Press, Tom French, Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke Awarded Cullman Center Fellowship

May 1, 2018 By Suella Holland

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

Filed Under: Awards, News Tagged With: Cullman Center Fellow, New York Public Library, Peter Fallon, The Gallery Press, Vona Groarke

Vona Groarke in Conversation with Olivia O’Leary: 13 March

March 6, 2018 By Suella Holland

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 […]

Filed Under: Events, News Tagged With: Four Sides Full, Olivia O'Leary, Poetry Ireland, the Irish Times, Vona Groarke

Warwick Women in Translation Award Shortlist

October 15, 2017 By Suella Holland

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, […]

Filed Under: Awards, News Tagged With: Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, Alan Gillis, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Bela Shayevich, Billy Ramsell, David Wheatley, Eliza Marciniak, John McAuliffe, Justin Quinn, Krystyna Boglar, Larissa Boehning, Lyn Marven, Medbh McGuckian, MIchael Coady, Michelle O'Sullivan, Paul Muldoon, Peter Fallon, Peter Sirr, Susan Bernofsky, Svetlana Alexievich, Tom French, Vona Groarke, Wioletta Greg, Yoko Tawada, Zosia Krasodomska-Jones

July 2017 – Poem of the Month

July 4, 2017 By Suella Holland

Detail from 'Cork' by Brian Lalor

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 […]

Filed Under: News, Poems of the Month Tagged With: Brian Lalor, Cork, Eiléan
 Ní Cuilleanáin, Vona Groarke, West Cork Literary Festival

June 2017 – Poem of the Month

June 8, 2017 By Suella Holland

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, […]

Filed Under: News, Poems of the Month Tagged With: Away, Listowel Writers Week, Pigott Poetry Prize, Poem of the Month, Selected Poems, Vona Groarke

Pigott Poetry Prize 2017 – Shortlist Announced

April 20, 2017 By Suella Holland

Vona Groarke’s Selected Poems has been shortlisted for this years’ Pigott Poetry Prize. This award is for the best collection of poetry by an Irish poet published between 1st February 2016 and 1st February 2017 and carries a prize of €5000 for the winning poet. This is the largest monetary prize awarded for a poetry […]

Filed Under: Awards, News Tagged With: Bernard O'Donoghue, Deryn Rees Jones, Lavinia Greenlaw, Listowel Writers Week, Maighread Medbh, Mark Pigott, Parvit of Agelast, Pigott Poetry Prize, Pigott Poetry Prize Shortlist, Selected Poems, The Seasons of Cullen Church, Vona Groarke

Poetry Picks of the Year 2016

January 5, 2017 By Suella Holland

“This year many poets were commissioned to respond to the Rising, shock led to poems that were respectable and sympathetic, but i was most struck by Tom French‘s angry riff on the Easter 1916 helpline in The Way to Work (Gallery). It was, more generally, a year of stocktaking for poetry and perhaps the best, most […]

Filed Under: News, Poetry Tagged With: Carcanet, Derek Mahon, Faber, Gallery, Martina Evans, New Selected Poems, Paul Muldoon, Selected Poems, The Way to Work, The Windows of Graceland, Tom French, Vona Groarke

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