Double Negative by Vona Groake Jean Sprackland a tragedy and a manifesto

a tragedy and a manifesto for the utopian imagination

The Sound We Make Ourselves: Poems 1971-2016 was published by Eyewear in 2016

Beneath all the places

of his projected final volume

Milne moves between Beckett and Brecht

Double Negative by Vona Groake Jean Sprackland a tragedy and a manifestoIn 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