The Poems of Seamus Heaney

Vona has published fifteen books, including nine collections of poetry with The Gallery Press, most recently Infinity Pool, shortlisted for the 2025 T.S. Eliot Prize.

Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara – a poetic account of Irish women domestic servants in 1890s New York, which arose out of her time as a Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library 2018-19, won the 2024 Michel Déon Award.

Her Selected Poems was awarded the 2017 Piggott Prize for Best Irish Poetry Collection. Recent poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry (Chicago), The Poetry Review, New York Review of Books, and the TLS.

2017 recipient of the Irish Literary Hall of Fame Award, she is a member of Aosdána, (Irish Academy of the Arts), and of the U.K.’s Royal Society of Literature.

Former editor of Poetry Ireland Review and poetry critic for the Irish Times, she is Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge (2022-26) and, in September 2025, was inaugurated by President Michael D. Higgins as the tenth Ireland Professor of Poetry (2025-28).

Dean received the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2020 and his pamphlet, Kitchens at Night, was a winner of the Poetry Business International Pamphlet Competition; it was published by Smith|Doorstop in 2022. Recent poems have appeared in London Magazine and New York Review of Books. His first collection After Party is published by Picador. He is writer in residence at University College Cork.

Rosie Lavan is an associate professor in the School of English at Trinity College Dublin. She is co-editor, with Bernard O’Donoghue and Matthew Hollis, of The Poems of Seamus Heaney (2025), and author of the study Seamus Heaney and Society (2020).