
Aoife Mannix
Aoife's poetry is widely published in anthologies and magazines and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM and the BBC World Service. In 2003 she recorded a spoken word CD Did You Forget To Take Your Tablets? with musician Richard Lewis
publications:
the elephant in the corner
the trick of foreign words
Lyrical and admirably free of clutter, Aoife's poems make a direct appeal to the emotions. This is a poet with a fresh, clear voice.
Maurice Riordan
Prologue from growing up an alien
The smell of a tangerine peeled
in the depths of a forest covered in snow,
the purity of that orange freshness
when you strip away the layers of skin.
Underneath all the unnecessary noise,
there is a silence so magic it wraps me
in a soft cocoon of whiteness.
A snowflake melting on my tongue.
This moment when I rest
under the heaviness of the trees,
stare out at the mountains
scraping against a sky so blue it hurts.
The air itself is crystal truth.
I sit in the quiet of this alien landscape,
a small space explorer, a snow
cosmonaut landed from Mars.
And all around me there is nothing but wonder.
Aoife is currently touring with her new show Growing Up An Alien -
Brewery Arts, Kendal
1 December - 7pm
tickets £7 & £6 (£5 fob & students)
tel: 07539 725133