Vona Groarke was born in the Irish Midlands in 1964. She attended Trinity College, Dublin and University College, Cork. She has been writer in residence at universities around the world and teaches in the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester. Infinity Pool is her ninth collection. Her previous collections, all published by The Gallery Press, include Flight (2002), shortlisted for the Forward Prize and winner of the Michael Hartnett Award; Spindrift (2009) and X (2014), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations; and Double Negative (2019), shortlisted for the 2020 Irish Times Poetry Now Award. In 2017 she received the Hennessy Hall of Fame Award for outstanding contribution to literature. She is currently writer in residence for St John’s College, University of Cambridge and was recently selected as the Ireland Professor of Poetry (2025–2028). Author photo © St John’s College, Cambridge
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