Jo Slade lives and works in Limerick. She is a poet, a painter, and a multimedia artist. She is the author of seven collections of poetry and two chapbooks of poems: The Artist’s Room (Pighog Press Brighton UK 2010); The White Cottage. Poems and Art Work (T-A-R Publications Ire, 2016); the chapbook, The White Cottage accompanied the installation/ exhibition of the same name which took place in The Sailors’ Home, Limerick in 2016; The Painter’s House (Salmon Poetry, 2013) was joint recipient of the Michael Hartnett Poetry Prize in 2014; In Fields I Hear Them Sing (Salmon Publishing, 1989); The Vigilant One (Salmon Publishing, 1994) was nominated for The Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize; Certain Octobers Poems and Paintings (Editions Eireanna Quimper, France 1997), a dual language English/French edition, which received a publication bursary from the Centre du Livre, Paris, France and was nominated in 2003 for the Prix Evelyn Encelot, Ecriture Prize, Maison des Ecrivains, Paris; City of Bridges (Salmon Poetry, 2005); and Cycles and Lost Monkeys (Salmon Poetry 2019). Her poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Romanian, Norwegian, Russian, Italian and Slovenian. Her work has been published in national and international literary journals. Jo has been awarded residencies in Ireland and abroad. She is the recipient of Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursaries and Awards as well as Travel Grants from Culture Ireland and Limerick City and County Councils. She has exhibited her paintings, sculptures and multimedia work widely in both solo and group shows and her work is represented in public and private collections in Ireland, France and Italy. Her most recent exhibition of paintings, sculpture and assemblages, Nostos, was held in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co.Clare, in 2020.
