Vona Groarke
Image Credit: Steve Pyke
Ireland Professor of Poetry
Writer in Residence
St John's College, Cambridge
Hereafter named winner of 2024 Michel Déon Prize
Ireland Professor of Poetry:
'A Lonely Began: The Poem Alone and the Poem in Company'
Vona Groarke will deliver a lecture at Queen's University, Belfast on March 20th at 7pm.
Tickets free but booking is essential. Reserve tickets here.
NEWS
Vona Groarke inaugurated as the new
Ireland Professor of Poetry by
former President Michael D. Higgins
at Áras an Uachtaráin, 11th September 2025
Vona Groarke inaugurated as the new Ireland Professor of Poetry by President Michael D. Higgins at Áras an Uachtaráin, 11th September 2025
EVENTS
- March 20th, 2026 @ 7:00pm: ‘A Lonely Began: The Poem Alone and the Poem in Company’, second Ireland Professor of Poetry Public Lecture. Queen's University Belfast. Register for tickets via eventbrite here.
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.
