Paula Bohince
Paula Bohince’s third collection is Swallows and Waves (Sarabande, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Granta, as well as the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, Poetry, the TLS, the Irish Times, and elsewhere. She has received awards from the Poetry Society of America and the UK National Poetry Competition. She has been the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholar, the Dartmouth Poet in Residence at The Frost Place, and a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Paula Bohince on Granta.com
Poetry | The Online Edition
Two Poems
Paula Bohince
‘What sparrows come, / come briefly, briefly displacing / the nothingness.’
Poetry | The Online Edition
At Thirty
Paula Bohince
‘At thirty, I fled from my life / in a hailstorm and firestorm’