Vona Groarke has published twelve books, including eight poetry collections such as Link: Poet and World. A Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library (2018-19), she is the current poet in residence at St John's College, Cambridge University in the UK.
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A lyrical portrait of a young Irish woman reinventing herself at the turn of the twentieth century in America. In July 1882, Ellen O'Hara stepped off a ship from the West of Ireland to begin a new life in New York. What she encountered was a world of cas... SEE MORE