• 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.

    Available now here at flippedeye and here at Easons.

  • 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.

    Available here at flippedeye.

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, Twinkle Little Bat.’

I ran workshops and performed in primary schools in Peckham as part of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education’s Southwark anthology project. This culminated in the publication of two anthologies and DVDS featuring poetry and animation by the children.

I ran workshops for the National Archives in Lampton School using WWI archives as inspiration for creative writing about the South Asian experience of the war. http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/south-asia-first-world-war/

I ran a series of poetry workshops with Creative Partnerships at Stewards Science School.

I was poet in residence for Eastbury Comprehensive School.

I worked with primary school children and Finsbury Park Homeless Families Project to create a book, Inside My Magic Suitcase, about refugee experiences.

I have worked with the Samaritans and Apples & Snakes in secondary schools in Ealing on a poetry project that culminated in a showcase at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith as well as a book and a DVD.

I completed a residency with Creative Partnerships at Mayville Primary School.

I was poet in residence at the Central Foundation School for Girls.

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.