Literary World
Anne-Marie has been organiser of Coffee-House Poetry for 13 years, was Chair of the Poetry Society from 2006 to 2009, a committee-member of the National Association for Writers in Education, a committee-member of the John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh and co-founder & organiser of the John Hewitt Spring Festival on the Antrim Coast.
She has organised a wide range of poetry events & festivals, has been a frequent poetry competition judge, has edited anthologies, has guest-edited, & written for, poetry magazines, and has worked with writers’ groups, schools, hospitals, libraries and prisons.
She has written on poets and poetry, has read & spoken on radio, Channel 4 & CNN, including “The Essay” on Emily Dickinson for BBC Radio 3, and is frequently called on to host & chair literary events & panel discussions, and to interview novelists, poets, playwrights.
...with guest poets at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
(photo: Peter Everard-Smith)
