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Heritage of Secrets ’20th Anniversary Edition’
“Heritage of Secrets” has echoes of Thomas Hardy’s “Far from the Madding Crowd” in more than just the name of the American sailor, Troy. With a keen eye for drama, Aoife Mannix navigates the peaks and troughs of intertwining lives in this exploration of a society in flux.
Available now here at flippedeye and here at Easons.
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Reconstruction
Aoife Mannix’s latest full collection begins with a series of poems that chronicle her recovery from cancer and surgery. In the wake of physical and personal transformation, the seemingly reliable constant of the outside world is in turn transformed by the global pandemic.
Available here at flippedeye.
Digital
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Best
‘Best’, my poetry film with director Kerry Bradley, was shortlisted for the Southbank’s Shot Through The Heart poetry film competition.
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One Stage At A Time
I received a Grants for the Arts Award from Arts Council England to develop a live spoken word show and digital project for people affected by cancer. The project is produced in partnership with Apples and Snakes and Maggie’s Centre Oxford. Find out more here
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Marked
I was filmed performing my poem ‘Marked’ as part of the Wellcome Collection’s Meat of the Tongue series.
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Blogs
I am currently blogging here. I was the official blogger for Cityread London, a London libraries festival project. I have been Writer in Residence for Portsmouth Museum working with their A Hard Choice exhibition. I was writer in residence for the Gosport Gallery’s Artists Rifles Exhibition. I worked with Turkish-speaking refugee women as part of In […]
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Commissions (Digital)
I was commissioned to write and record a poem for National Poetry Day by the Forward Trust and Apples and Snakes in partnership with the BBC’s The Space. The poem was inspired by Anthony Burrill’s posters. I was a commissioned writer and editor on the RSC’s award winning Midsummer Night’s Dreaming. I was poet in […]
About
AOIFE MANNIX is an award-winning Irish poet and writer, the author of a novel, five collections of poetry, two pamphlets, and seven libretti. She has been poet-in-residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company and BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live. She has written articles for the Irish Independent and the Gloss (the lifestyle magazine of the Irish Times) among others. She has toured internationally with the British Council as well as throughout the UK and Ireland including the Southbank Centre, Latitude and the Big Chill. She has previously worked as a librettist with composer Stephen McNeff on ‘A Star Next to the Moon’ (opera which premiered at the Barbican in 2024), ‘The Horizons of Doubt’ (recorded by the BBC Singers as part of BBC Radio 3’s Afternoon concert) ‘Beyond the Garden’ (a one act opera with mezzo-soprano Susan Bickley), ‘The Walking Shadows’ (a choral work about the First World War which premiered at St-Martin-in-the-Fields) and ‘A Half Darkness’ (commissioned by Chamber Choir Ireland as part of the 1916 centenary.)
She has been commissioned by the BBC, the National Archives, the Portsmouth Museum, Youth Music Theatre UK, Apples and Snakes, the National Gallery of Ireland, the O’Brien Collection, the Bronte Parsonage, and Cherwell Theatre Company. She has taught creative writing at Goldsmiths, University of London, the University of Westminster, Anglia Ruskin University, and Bucks New University. She has previously worked as a script editor for the BBC as well as for Channel 4 and the Royal Court Theatre. She has a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Oxfordshire.