Infinity Pool by Vona Groarke PRE-ORDER
Published June 2025. Available for pre-order.
Just as an infinity pool gives the illusion of one invisible edge, the dividing line between poems and the world they process can be magically tricky to discern. Infinity Pool, Vona Groarke's ninth poetry collection and fifteenth book, tests the limits of spaces poems make for themselves. In language precise, luminous and spry, these poems write into the point where anything might slip into something else — the Atlantic become an actor; a luggage carousel be a reckoning; a poem nudge itself gently over its own fourth wall. From the author of work previously described as "exquisite, pitch-perfect' (PN Review) and "for the ages' (Dublin Review of Books), this is an ingenious, exhilarating collection from one of our foremost poets. Vona Groarke has published thirteen books with The Gallery Press, most recently Woman of Winter (2023), with drawings by Isabel Nolan, and Link: Poet and World (2021). Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara was published by New York University Press in 2022 and won the 2024 Michel Déon Prize. 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.
Just as an infinity pool gives the illusion of one invisible edge, the dividing line between poems and the world they process can be magically tricky to discern. Infinity Pool, Vona Groarke's ninth poetry collection and fifteenth book, tests the limits of spaces poems make for themselves. In language precise, luminous and spry, these poems write into the point where anything might slip into something else — the Atlantic become an actor; a luggage carousel be a reckoning; a poem nudge itself gently over its own fourth wall. From the author of work previously described as "exquisite, pitch-perfect' (PN Review) and "for the ages' (Dublin Review of Books), this is an ingenious, exhilarating collection from one of our foremost poets. Vona Groarke has published thirteen books with The Gallery Press, most recently Woman of Winter (2023), with drawings by Isabel Nolan, and Link: Poet and World (2021). Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O'Hara was published by New York University Press in 2022 and won the 2024 Michel Déon Prize. 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.
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