Vona Groarke & Open Mic

Join us on Zoom for a poetry reading by Vona Groarke followed by Open Mic!

7:45pm - Sign up for Open Mic on Zoom chat

8:00pm - Vona Groarke reading

8:15pm - Open Mic begins

9:10pm - Announcements and Farewells

Vona Groarke has been described in Poetry Ireland Review as ‘among the best Irish poets writing today’. She is the author of fourteen books, including eight poetry collections with The Gallery Press (most recently Woman of Winter, 2023, and Link: Poet and World, 2021). Her Selected Poems won the 2017 Pigott Prize for Best Irish Poetry Collection. Her ninth collection, Infinity Pool, will be published in May 2025. A Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library 2018-19, her research there led to Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara, a multi-genre account of the lives of Irish women domestic servants in late nineteenth century New York, (New York University Press, 2022). Hereafter was a Book of the Year in the Irish Times, the Spectator and Sunday Independent, and won the RIA’s 2024 Michel Déon Award. Poet, essayist, reviewer and editor, her work has recently appeared in the New Yorker, New York Review of Books, L.A. Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and Poetry Review. She teaches at the University of Manchester and is the current Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge.

We are grateful for the support of The Arts Council and Limerick City & County Council.

Zoom closed-captions will be made available for this event.

Participation is limited to the first 100 guests to join.