Poetry
Category: Individual Collections, Poetry
Number of pages: 64
ISBN: 9781781722404
Publication date: April 7, 2015
Price: £9.99
Anne-Marie Fyfe’s poems have long dwelt on the role that the spaces we inhabit, the places in which we find security, play in our lives: House of Small Absences is an observation window into strange, unsettling spaces—a deserted stage-set, our own personalised ‘museum’, a Piedmont albergo, underground cities, Midtown roof-gardens, convent orchards, houseboats, a foldaway circus, a Romanian sleeper-carriage—the familiar rendered uncanny through the distorting lenses of distance and life’s exigencies, its inevitable lettings-go…
Anne-Marie Fyfe
Born in Cushendall, County Antrim, Anne-Marie Fyfe lives in London where she has run Coffee-House Poetry’s readings & classes at London’s leading live literature venue, the Troubadour in Earls Court since 1997, created the Troubadour International Poetry Prize, is Poetry Co-ordinator for the annual John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh, & is former Chair of the Poetry Society. Her distinctive themed creative-writing workshops have inspired writers at festivals, writers’ groups, universities & colleges throughout Britain & Ireland over many years &, over the past 10 years in particular, in Europe (on annual residential writing courses) & in the USA on her reading/workshopping tour each spring. Her latest publication, No Far Shore: Charting Unknown Waters, was written on an 18-month journey around the coasts of Britain & Ireland &, on the Atlantic’s farther shores, the US’s North-Eastern coastal states & Nova Scotia in Canada. She has published five poetry collections including House of Small Absences (Seren).
