News for October

Posted on October 5, 2011 by aoife

Hi there,

I’ve just got back from an amazing trip to China with the British Council.  I was performing with Francesca Beard and Luke Wright at the 5th Pearl River International Poetry Festival in Guangzhou and Chengdu.  Now the leaves are turning, here are a few things I’m up to in October.  Be great to see you there if you’re able to make it.  Like my facebook page to find out more -

ILKLEY FESTIVAL & RENAISSANCE ONE PRESENTS JEAN ‘BINTA’ BREEZE AND AOIFE MANNIX

National Poetry Day: 6 October 2011 7.30pm, Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside

SATURDAY LIVE POETRY POP-UP Thursday, October 6 10:00am and 3pm on BBC Radio 4 Extra Poets from Saturday Live perform from the BBC Radio Theatre for National Poetry Day. Hosted by Richard Coles with music by Cerys Matthews.

AOIFE MANNIX: POET IN RESIDENCE AT BRONTE PARSONAGE MUSEUM

To mark National Poetry Day, poet Aoife will be resident at the Bronte Parsonage Museum. She will be asking visitors to contribute lines of text to a crinolined dress installation that will evolve throughout the day into a sculptural piece. Aoife Mannix will weave these visitor responses into new poetry inspired by her residency which will be exhibited as a series of poetry installations in the rooms of the Parsonage from 8th November 2011 until 1st January 2012.

TALKING RHYTHM! October 10th at 7.30pm, The Prince of Greenwich, 72 Royal Hill, London SE10 8RT

Poetry and Music Open Mic with featured guests.  This month: Aoife Mannix; Fiona Moore, Isabel White??Music: Trevor John Hosts: Bernadette Reed and Jazzman John Clarke

COFFEE–HOUSE POETRY AT THE TROUBADOUR 8pm on Mon 31 Oct: 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5 9JA.

what we should have said: an entertaining, enlightening, engaging, unpredictable shindig with stuart silver, aoife mannix, richard douglas pennant, hannah silva and violinist darragh morgan


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About aoife

have a listen at http://www.myspace.com/aoifemannixandjaniearmour Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. Her first novel Heritage of Secrets was published by Lubin & Kleyner in 2008. She is the author of four collections of poetry; The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007) and the recent Turn The Clocks Upside Down – all with Tall Lighthouse. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM, and the BBC World Service. Her short stories are included in the anthologies Tell Tales Volume 3 (2006), Small Voices, Big Confessions (2006) and Westside Stories (2003).
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