Vona Groarke: ‘I don’t usually read for comfort. I read poetry for excitement and risk. Novels for company. Biography for nosiness’

Vona Groarke: ‘I don’t usually read for comfort. I read poetry for excitement and risk. Novels for company. Biography for nosiness’

Vona Groarke is the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, until 2028. Her ninth poetry collection is Infinity Pool, published in May by The Gallery Press. She has taught at the University of Manchester since 2007 and is writer-in-residence at St John’s College, Cambridge, and with the Sligo Yeats Society. Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara won the 2024 Michel Deon Prize. She lives in Co Sligo.