Aoife Mannix

Alice under the Knife Aoife Mannix

Aoife Mannix grew up in Dublin before moving to the UK. She is the author of five collections of poetry, all with Tall-Lighthouse Press: The Trick of Foreign Words (2002), The Elephant in the Corner (2005), Growing Up An Alien (2007), Turn The Clocks Upside Down (2008), and Cocktails from the Ceiling (2013), as well as of four librettos published by Edition Peters. Her novel 'Heritage of Secrets' is being reissued by Flipped Eye in 2021. This book won James Tate Poetry Prize 2020.