Book Launch: Vanishing by Jean Tuomey

Join us for the launch of poet Jean Tuomey’s latest collection Vanishing, published by Lapwing Press.

Here is a rare thing in contemporary poetry — a book redolent of gardens and the natural world, a hymn to beauty, to colour, to the grace of enduring and steadfast hope, a paean to love given and received. At the same time, and interweaving with all this, a book that looks without flinching at the death of parents, at a tough medical diagnosis, at the fragilities of life. There is grief here, certainly, contained to be sure but never flinched from. Tuomey's gratitude for the gift of life is neatly and meticulously stitched into every word, line, phrase and verse. (Theo Dorgan on Vanishing)

Jean Tuomey is published in national and international journals. Her chapbook, Magical Thinking, was highly commended in Fools for Poetry 2021. She won the Jonathan Swift Creative Writing Award for poetry in 2021 and the St Francis Hospice poetry prize 2022. Her debut collection Swept Back ( Lapwing ) was launched in Dec 2022. Vanishing ( Lapwing) her second collection in 2026. She received the Cathaoirleach Award for Contribution to the Arts in Mayo 2023. A former teacher, she trained as a writing facilitator with the National Association of Poetry Therapy in the US and facilitates groups in Ireland and in London.