Plays & Poetry

Vona Groarke was born and raised in Ireland. She publishes in the United States with Wake Forest University Press and in Ireland with The Gallery Press.

finity Pool, Vona Groarke’s ninth poetry collection and fifteenth book, tests the limits of spaces poems make for themselves.

Infinity Pool, Vona Groarke’s ninth poetry collection and fifteenth book, tests the limits of spaces poems make for themselves.

A 40-year conversation between words and silence lies at the core of Philip Gross's poetry, never more so than in this edgy homage to Estonia, the country of his refugee father's birth. The shapeshifting monologues of Evi And The Devil draw on folktale, dark humour, the routine atrocities of history and a vivid sense of place.

100 Irish poets accept the invitation to revisit a favourite, key or touchstone poem of their own, and offer a short commentary on same — as they might at a live event.