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 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]

  
  
  

• As one of Alwyn Marriages’s poems was selected by the Guernsey ‘Poems on the buses’ this year, she read it at the Guernsey Literature Festival.

  [9-Sep-14 Alwyn Marriage,Guernsey Literature Festival,Guernsey Poems on the buses]

  
  
  

• R V Bailey and Alwyn Marriage gave a reading with Dannie Abse at Keats House in Hampstead after the Poetry Society’s AGM at the end of November.

  [10-Dec-13 AGM,Alwyn Marriage,Keats House,Poetry Society,R V Bailey]

  
  
  

• Alwyn Marriage has won the BigUpWords poetry competition, whose theme was ‘Trees’.

  [27-Sep-13 Alwyn Marriage,Andover,BigUpWords,Competition success]

  
  
  

• Alwyn Marriage is Poet in Residence for the Winchester 10 Days Festival, from 26th October to 3rd November.

  [13-Sep-13 Alwyn Marriage,poet in residence,Winchester 10 Days Festival]

  
  
  

• Alwyn Marriage read at the Just Festival in Edinburgh in August. This was formerly the Festival of Justice and Peace.

  [13-Sep-13 Alwyn Marriage,Edinburgh,Festival of Justice and Peace,Just Festival]

  
  
  

• Simon Williams and Susan Taylor are launching a new poetry publication next month, called ‘Broadsheet’. The first issue will include poets reading at the Exeter Poetry Festival and poets from Devon and Cornwall. The Oversteps poets represented in this first issue are: Jennie Osborne, Rebecca Gethin and Alwyn Marriage.

  [13-Sep-13 Alwyn Marriage,Broadsheet,Jennie Osborne,Rebecca Gethin,Simon Williams,Susan Taylor]

  
  
  

• Denise Bennett won first prize in the Hastings Poetry Competition, and Alwyn Marriage was highly commended.

  [15-May-13 Alwyn Marriage,Competition success,Denise Bennett,Hastings,Prizes]