• Heritage of Secrets - Aoife Mannix

    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.

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  • Reconstruction - Aoife Mannix

    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.

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Shows

I have given poetry readings and performed throughout the UK including Ledbury Poetry Festival, Royal Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford Upon Avon), Southbank Centre, Arts Council England, Latitude, the Big Chill, O2 Wireless Festival, British Council London, the British Library, the Barbican, and Somerset House amongst many others.

I was part of the ‘Speechless’ UK tour, a British Council and Apples & Snakes commission, which culminated in a sellout show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall as part of Poetry International.

My show ‘Growing Up An Alien’, produced by Apples & Snakes and supported by Arts Council England, premiered at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature festival before touring the UK. A book of the poems from the show was published by Tall Lighthouse.

I was commissioned by Phrased & Confused through The Hub and Arts Council England to write and perform ‘Different Words for Snow’ with musician Janie Armour. This show toured the UK and was released as a CD.

I toured with What We Should Have Said, a poetry and music show produced by BAFTA nominated Stuart Silver, with performances in Wales, London and at the Ledbury Poetry Festival.

I toured with Canadian poet Heather Taylor in our show ‘Accents on Words’ produced by Tall Lighthouse.

In 2003/4 I performed as part of Renaissance One’s Kin national spoken word tour.

I performed in the Apples and Snakes ‘Writers on The Storm’ tour in 2002/3.

Aoife Mannix

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.