Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh
16 July — 10 October 2020
Poems by Vona Groarke & Padraig Regan written in response to Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh commission and exhibition at The Dock 16 July — 10 October 2020.
Vona Groarke was born and raised in Ireland. She publishes in the United States with Wake Forest University Press and in Ireland with The Gallery Press. She is the author of six collections of poetry, including X (2014) and Juniper Street (2006). The current editor of Poetry Ireland Review, she teaches poetry at the University of Manchester.
Padraig Regan was born in 1993 in Belfast. They are the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive &
Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen’s University Belfast.
You can download a copy of the essay here
