A Vona Groarke Workshop and Reading takes place at the Yeats International Summer School from 26 July 2025.
Workshop details: Two-day creative poetry workshop with Vona Groarke
10am-3.30 pm on Saturday, 26 and Sunday 27 July in the Yeats Building, Sligo. (Sold out)
Vona Groarke Poetry Reading:
8.00pm, Sunday 27 July 27, Yeats Building.
Tickets: €14.00
Vona Groarke was born in the Irish Midlands in 1964. She attended Trinity College, Dublin and University College, Cork. She has lived in Dublin, Cork and Dundalk and has been writer-in-residence at universities in Galway and Maynooth and was co-holder of the Heimbold Chair in Irish Studies at Villanova University (2004). A member of Aosdána she was selected as a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library 2018/19 and teaches in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. Vona Groarke is St John’s College, University of Cambridge, Writer in Residence for the 2022-2023 academic year. Vona Groarke was recently selected as the incoming Ireland Professor of Poetry (2025-2028).
Her collections published by The Gallery Press include Shale (1994), Other People’s Houses (1999), Flight (2002, shortlisted for the Forward Prize (UK) and winner of the Michael Hartnett Award in 2003), Juniper Street (2006), Spindrift (2009), X (2014), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations, Selected Poems (2016) and Four Sides Full (2016, a book-length personal essay), Double Negative (2019, shortlisted for the 2020 Irish TimesPoetry Now Award) and Link (Poet and World) was published in 2021. Her ninth poetry collection, Infinity Pool, was published in May 2025.
