Double Negative by Vona Groake Fly on the Wall Edited and Translated by Jean

Edited and Translated by Jean Boase-Beier and Marian de Vooght

the Emergency Poet offers consultations inside her vintage 1970s ambulance and prescribes poems as cures

All The Journeys I Never Took offers a personal account of what it’s like to leave behind the middle man – lover

The opening poem sequence

Double Negative by Vona Groake Fly on the Wall Edited and Translated by JeanIn this, her seventh collection, Vona Groarke considers the subject of ageing, fearlessly exploring its culverts and cul de sacs while also checking this earnestness with sharp wit and trademark style. Here candour is mediated by humour. These are sensual and sensitive poems, written in language asked to be beautiful, wry and true about topics usually either ignored or obscured with greyness and clich. Hailed by The Irish Times as a poet of great self