Poetry Reading: Gallery Goes

Vona Groarke, Polina Cosgrave, and Kelly Michels

Friday 1 August | 11.15am | £12

Born in the Irish midlands Vona Groarke now divides her time between Sligo and the United Kingdom. A member of Aosdána, she was a 2018-19 Fellow of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library and is the current Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge. She was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara was published by New York University Press in 2022 and won the 2024 Michel Déon Prize. Her new poetry collection, Infinity Pool, will be published in 2025. It is her fourteenth book published by The Gallery Press.

Polina Cosgrave was born in Volgograd in Russia and now lives in Dublin. She is a bilingual writer, performer and Arts Council award recipient. Her first collection, My Name Is, was published by Dedalus Press in 2020. Her work is included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2022, has appeared in Russian journals and, here, in Banshee, Crannóg, The Irish Times, Southword and The Stinging Fly. Cargo (2024) is her first collection with The Gallery Press.

Kelly Michels relocated to Ireland from the United States in 2019 and completed her PhD at UCD. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Banshee, Tampa Review, Best New Poets and New Ohio Review.) She has received the Rachel Wetzsteon Poetry Prize from The 92nd Street Y, the Spoon River Poetry Review Editor’s Prize and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her first collection, American Anthem, published in 2024 was shortlisted for the Forward Arts Foundation Felix Dennis Prize for Best First Collection 2024.

The Gallery Press thanks the Arts Council of Ireland for its continued support of their Gallery Goes series.