Vona Groarke is an Irish people, Irish poet. Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown, Mostrim in the Irish midlands in 1964,
and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork.
Groarke has published five collections of poetry with the Gallery Press (and by Wake Forest University Press in the United States): ''Shale'' (1994), ''Other People's Houses'' (1999), ''Flight'' (2002), ''Juniper Street'' (2006) and ''Spindrift'' (2009).
She is also the author of a translation of the eighteenth-century Irish poem, ''Lament for Art O'Leary'' (Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire) (Gallery Books, 2008).
Groarke has been a co-holder of the Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies at Villanova University and has taught at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She now teaches at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester,
and in 2010 was elected a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of the arts.
Awards and honours
Groarke's work has been recognized with awards including the Brendan Behan Memorial Award,
the Hennessy Award,
the Michael Hartnett Award,
the Forward Prize,
and the Strokestown International Poetry Award.
Her 2009 volume ''Spindrift'' has been nominated for the 2010 Irish Times Poetry Now Award.
Books
* 1994 in poetry, 1994: ''Shale'', The Gallery Press, Oldcastle
* 1999 in poetry, 1999: ''Other People's Houses'', The Gallery Press, Oldcastle
* 2002 in poetry, 2002: ''Flight'', The Gallery Press, Oldcastle
* 2004 in poetry, 2004: ''Flight and Earlier Poems'', Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
* 2006 in poetry, 2006: ''Juniper Street'', The Gallery Press, Oldcastle; Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, NC
* 2009 in poetry, 2009: ''Spindrift'', The Gallery Press, Oldcastle; Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, NC,2010
* 2014 in poetry, 2014: ''X'', The Gallery Press, Oldcastle
* 2022 in poetry, 2022: ''Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'hara'', NYU Press, New York, NY, 10003
References
External links
Wake Forest University PressNorth American publisher of Vona Groarke
Irish women poets
Wake Forest University faculty
Living people
Aosdána members
People from County Longford
20th-century Irish writers
21st-century Irish writers
20th-century Irish women writers
21st-century Irish women writers
Irish poets
Year of birth missing (living people)
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