"It arrived one year to the day after her death, hauled in by two removal men who set it down as carefully as they could and asked - a little fearfully - if I wanted it upstairs. I had asked her for it, she had left it to me..."
Vona Groarke was recently appointed the new Ireland Professor of Poetry, by the Ireland Chair of Poetry Trust. She will take over from Professor Paul Muldoon and her position will run from September 2025 to November 2028.
This essay appeared on the programme of 3 August 2025 and you can listen to that full programme here
