Alwyn Marriage
As well as her earlier poetry collection, ‘Beautiful Man’ (Outposts Publications), Alwyn Marriage has written two non-fiction books and edited the highly-acclaimed Collins anthology, ‘New Christian Poetry’. She has been a university philosophy lecturer, editor of a journal and chief executive of two international literacy and literature NGOs, and she took over from Anne Born as Managing Editor of Oversteps Books in 2008’ She is currently working as an environmental consultant and lecturer, while writing poetry and fiction.
Alwyn gives regular poetry readings, and accepts commissions for new work or to run workshops.
Sample poem: Tsunami
Personal website: www.marriages.me.uk
Oversteps collections
Touching earth (2007)
Words known more deeply than thought or memory,
creating in secret the context of identity:
important, trivial words that change the world,
like goodnight, and I love you.
from “by heart”
Recent news
Alwyn Marriage read at the Wenlock Poetry Festival as part of a performance by poets in the Shropshire Butterfly anthology.
[17-Apr-12 Alwyn Marriage,Readings]
‘Sunrise from Blue Thunder’, an international anthology about Japan, published in aid of the victims of the tsanami and nuclear disaster last year, has just been published by Pirene’s Fountain. Two poems by Alwyn Marriage, ‘Tsunami’ and ‘The Price of Nuclear Energy’ are included in it.
Alwyn Marriage’s poem, ‘The Clue lies in the Lady’s Toe’, has been awarded 2nd prize in the Bedford Open Poetry Competition.
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