She has published fourteen books, including eight collections of poetry with the Gallery Press: Shale (1994), Other People's Houses (1999), Flight (2002), Juniper Street (2006), Spindrift (2009), X (2014), Double Negative (2019), and Link : Poet and World (2021).
[1] She is also the author of a translation of the eighteenth-century Irish poem, Lament for Art O'Leary (Caoineadh Airt Uí Laoghaire) (Gallery Books, 2008).
[2] and of Woman of Winter (2023), a version of the ninth-century Irish poem usually known as 'The Lament of the Hag of Beare', with illustrations by Isobel Nolan.
With poetry, prose, history and images, Hereafter arose out of her time as a Fellow of the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, 2018–19.
She has taught at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester since 2007,[3] and in 2010 was elected a member of Aosdána, the Irish academy of the arts.