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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.
Workshops
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Schools
I worked with Hackney Archives and primary school children on the Stoke Newington Heritage Mural Project. This project will culminate in a mural and a collection of poetry by students at William Patten Primary School. The British Library asked me to run workshops for primary school children in connection with their children’s poetry exhibition ‘Twinkle, […]
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The Writing Room
I am course leader for ‘The Writing Room’, a series of workshops in writing and performing with Apples and Snakes for young people aged 16-25. Find out more information here.
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Universities
I have been a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Goldsmiths, University of London. I have been an associate lecturer at Goldsmiths teaching general writing seminars for their MA in creative and life writing. I have been a lecturer at the University of Westminster. I taught ‘Language and the Imagination’ as part of ‘Writing The City’, a […]
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Creative Writing
I ran creative writing workshops at Maggie’s Centre Oxford as part of One Stage At A Time. I have been a tutor on Urban Arvon running writing workshops with novelist Courttia Newland in Virginia Woolf’s old home. I give individual tutorials for the Poetry School. I have run writing workshops at the British Library’s Writing […]
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.