About Anne-Marie Fyfe
Anne-Marie Fyfe, poet, creative-writing teacher, arts-organiser & former Chair of the Poetry Society, (2006-2009), was born in Cushendall in the Glens of Antrim and now lives in West London.
Anne-Marie Fyfe has:
- published three volumes of poetry, including The Ghost Twin (Peterloo, 2005) with a New and Selected forthcoming from Seren Books in 2010;
- won the Academi Cardiff International Poetry Competition (2004) with her poem Curaçao Dusk;
- been Aldeburgh’s Poetry Trust Writer-in-Residence (2003);
- established Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour in 1997 ;
- co-organised the John Hewitt Spring Festival in the Glens of Antrim since 2003 and organised readings and creative-writing classes at the John Hewitt International Summer School since 1996;
- run poetry classes, readings and workshops;
- organised and hosted poetry events and festivals, and has talked on poets, poetry & the poetry world on TV & radio;
- interviewed a wide range of well known poets and figures from the world of literature.
With Seamus Heaney and C.L. Dallat at the John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh (photo: Ulster Tatler)
Comments...
“Anne-Marie Fyfe’s poems have a lyric clarity, an ontological accuracy and unflinching vigilance that is both spiritual and revelatory.”
— Tom Paulin
“Time, witness, flesh and remembrance — these poems play in the deep end of the pools of image and imagination. A rich humanity informs Anne-Marie Fyfe’s new work. The vision is detailed, the voice rings true.”
— Thomas Lynch
“Anne-Marie Fyfe reminds us of the skins we inhabit and shed … This is fine poetry.”
— John Greening in Times Literary Supplement
“Poem after poem has this quiet musicality, along with a persuasive and obstinate trust in what Wordsworth called ‘the essential passions of the heart’.”
— Michael O’Neill in London Magazine
