Oversteps Books

As well as her earlier poetry collections, ‘Beautiful Man’ (Outposts Publications) and ‘Touching Earth’ (Oversteps Books), 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.

Alwyn gives regular poetry readings, and accepts commissions for new work or to run workshops.

Sample poem: Tsunami
Sample poem: Ski scene
Personal website: www.marriages.me.uk

Oversteps collections

Touching earth (2007)

festo  (2012)

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 has been longlisted in the Paragram poetry competition. Final results awaited.

  [28-Aug-16 Alwyn Marriage,Paragram poetry competition]

  
  
  

• Alwyn Marriage was recently commended in both the Hungry Hill Wild Atlantic competition, and in the Segora competition.

  [3-Sep-15 Alwyn Marriage,Hungry Hill Wild Atlantic competition,Segora competition]

  
  
  

• Michael Swan, Elisabeth Rowe and Alwyn Marriage were all commended in the Poetry on the Lake poetry competition. Hilary Elfick won second prize and Alwyn Marriage was highly commended.

  [27-Jul-15 Alwyn Marriage,Elisabeth Rowe,Hilary Elfick,Michael Swan,Poetry on the Lake]

  
  
  

• One of Alwyn Marriages’s poems was Highly Commended and another Commended in the Poetry on  the Lake competition.

  [27-Jul-15 Alwyn Marriage,poetry competition,Poetry on the Lake]

  
  
  

• Oversteps poets are well-represented among the prize-winners of the Poetry on the Lake poetry competition. In the open category, Hilary Elfick won second prize, Alwyn Marriage was short-listed, Michael Swan, Elisabeth Rowe and Alwyn Marriage were long-listed, and AC Clarke was highly commended in the formal category.

  [16-Jun-15 A C Clarke,Alwyn Marriage,Competition success,Elisabeth Rowe,Hilary Elfick,Michael Swan,Poetry on the Lake]

  
  
  

• Alwyn Marriage came first in the Leeds Peace Poetry competition.

  [29-Apr-15 Alwyn Marriage,First prize,Leeds Peace Poetry competition]

  
  
  

• Alwyn Marriage has been shortlisted for the Leeds Peace Poetry Prize.

  [12-Apr-15 Alwyn Marriage,Leeds Peace Poetry Prize]

  
  
  

• Alwyn Marriage was commended in this year’s Poetry Society’s Stanza competition, and was one of the winners of the Miracle Poetry competition.

  [15-Oct-14 Alwyn Marriage,Miracle Poetry competition,Poetry Society's Stanza competition]