Vona Groarke
Vona Groarke is an Irish poet.
Groarke was born in Edgeworthstown in the Irish midlands in 1964,[1] and attended Trinity College, Dublin, and University College, Cork.[2] She 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).[3] 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).[4]
Her work has been recognized with awards including the Brendan Behan Memorial Award,[5] the Hennessy Award,[5] the Michael Hartnett Award,[2] the Forward Prize,[2] and the Strokestown International Poetry Award.[5] Her 2009 volume Spindrift has been nominated for the 2010 Irish Times Poetry Now Award.[3]
She 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,[2] and in 2010 was elected a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of the arts.
[edit] Books
- 1994: Shale, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle
- 1999: Other People’s Houses, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle
- 2002: Flight, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle
- 2004: Flight and Earlier Poems, Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States
- 2006: Juniper Street, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle; Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, NC
- 2009: Spindrift, The Gallery Press, Oldcastle; Wake Forest University Press, Winston-Salem, NC,2010
[edit] References
- ^ Bourke, Angela (2002). The Field day anthology of Irish writing. NYU Press. p. 1404. ISBN 0814799078. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qZ6W1LiIyYYC&pg=PA1404&lpg=PA1404&dq=%22Vona+Groarke%22+Edgeworthstown&source=bl&ots=Fx0nqGwr3A&sig=RCZ3roygEUJUzmcuV-msEpFibYE&hl=en&ei=lNdvS6fwDKj20wSuz9TZBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCIQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22Vona%20Groarke%22%20Edgeworthstown&f=false.
- ^ a b c d "Vona Groarke". University of Manchester. http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/newwriting/about/vonagroarke/.
- ^ a b "Poetry award shortlist announced". The Irish Times. 30 January 2010. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0130/1224263405165.html.
- ^ "Titles - Vona Groarke - Lament for Art O'Leary". Gallery Books official website. http://www.gallerypress.com/Authors/Vgroarke/Books/vglfaol.html.
- ^ a b c "Publications: Vona Groarke". University of Manchester official website. http://publications.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/SchProfile.aspx?strLocalStaffID=5314&strLocalSource=SSL&strSchoolID=AHC&strUnitID=ENG_AMER.
[edit] External links
- Wake Forest University Press North American publisher of Vona Groarke
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