Double Negative by Vona Groake Jonathan Edwards The poems of this dazzling

The poems of this dazzling second collection are of contradictory impulses: of abundance and famine

the surreal imagery of her early work is re-deployed to venture into the badlands of the human psyche

‘Clearly

While there is disquiet in these ‘dark distances’

Double Negative by Vona Groake Jonathan Edwards The poems of this dazzlingIn 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