Naomi Foyle reading from Adamantine in New York City

Naomi Foyle | Current Events

Mar 7 2024. Naomi will be speaking about her political poetry at the Arundel Literature Festival. More info tbc.

Feb 22 2024. Naomi will be speaking on the panel Palestine: Poetry, Resistance & Survival at Alliances of Understanding, a symposium on Palestine, Cinema and Poetry at UEA/online.

Recent Events, Interviews & Features

Jan 18 2024. Naomi read from her essay ‘Shuhada’ / Sinead’ at the launch of Critical Muslim: Saliha, at the Art Workers Guild in London, an event held in memory of Saliha Begum Basit Sardar (1958-2023).

Dec 2 2023. Naomi chaired a panel at the Muslim Institute’s Winter Gathering in Salisbury.  Palestine/Israel – an unending conflict? Panellists: Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi, president and provost of Doha Institute, Qatar; Madeleine Bunting, author, former associate editor of The Guardian; Liz Fekete, director of the Institute of Race Relations; and Hassan Mahamdallie, Director of the Muslim Institute. 

Nov 5 2023. ‘Boas & Blindfolds’ by The Vales is launched. The song, Naomi’s lyrics set to music and performed by Nev Hawkins and Kirsten Morrison, was released in audio, and in a video directed by Kirsten Morrison.

A record cover thumbnail. An abstract image of a lightbulb glowing against an orange background. Text reads 'The Vales: Boas and Blindfolds'.

Oct 29 2023 Naomi’s poem ‘((Human)(Animals))’ was published in El Dostor newspaper, Cairo, translated into Arabic by Safaa Elnagar and Abdul Maqsoud Abdul Karim.

The Arts and Culture page of El Dostor newspaper, with Naomi Foyle's poem and photo, and other articles and images.

Sept 10 2023. Naomi was the featured guest at Poets of Conscience: A Celebration of Life. Westbeth Artists Collective, NYC. Organised by Farid Bitar.

Aug 12 2023. Naomi read at Bognor BlakeFest, at the Bognor Regis launch of LONDON NATION by Niall McDevitt. Details TBA.

Jul 4 2023. Naomi read at Poetry and Music, supporting Louis de Bernieres, reading his poetry, and concert pianist Elena Toponogova playing Romantic gems. 7pm, Chichester Cathedral.

Jun 21 2023. Naomi was the featured reader at Words Out Loud, followed by Open Mic. Wagtail Coffee & Yoga, Chichester.

Jun 17 2023. Naomi read at the launch of Long Poem Magazine 29. The Barbican Library, The Barbican, Silk Street, London.

Jun 13 2023. Naomi read and spoke at An Evening of Poetry and Film: A Celebration of the Life and Literary Legacy of the Late Poet Niall McDevitt, alongside fellow readers John O’Donoghue, James Byrne, Alan Cox, Roddy McDevitt and the screenings of ‘W.B. Yeats: The Battle of Blythe Road’ and ‘James Joyce: Reluctant Groom’, two documentary films of Niall McDevitt’s psychogeographical talks, directed by Merry Doyle. As the finale of the event, artist Julie Goldsmith presented the Irish launch of Niall’s final collection LONDON NATION. The event took place at The Teachers Club, Dublin (where James Joyce took piano lessons), and was presented by Loopline Film for The Bloomsday Film Festival in Association with Dublin City Council, The Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith and Poetry Ireland.

May 15-21 2023. Naomi was a tutor and featured reader at A Casa dos Poetas, the annual Anglo-Portuguese poetry festival in Silves, the Algarve.

The poster for A Casa dos Poetas 2023, featuring a stork flying across the sun.

May 3rd 2023. Naomi read her poetry at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, the Faculty of English, Cambridge, with Simon Jenner and Andrew Duncan.

Dec 18th 2022. Naomi read her poetry at Torriano Meeting House, North London, on a double bill with Anthony Howell. 7:30 pm. £6/£5, per pocket.

Nov 9th 2022. Naomi read her work at the Chichester Poets event, Novium Museum, Chichester, with a line up including Hugh Dunkerley, Raine Geoghegan and Stephanie Norgate, hosted by Kate Mosse.

June and July 2022. ASTRA was performed at Brighton Fringe, Chichester Fringe and the Brighthelm Centre, Brighton.

June 30th 2022. Naomi was interviewed about ASTRA for the Chichester Observer.

Mar 6th 2022. Angela Carter: A Radical Prescience? A one-day symposium, live and online at the University of Chichester, on the work of the preeminent British fantasy writer, co-organised by Naomi for the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. Submissions open until Nov 30, full guidelines here.

Dec 4th & 5th 2021. Winter Words. Naomi read her own poetry and seasonal favourites at this Christmas Festival at Petworth House, Sussex.

Nov 2021. Naomi was a featured poet at Bright Scarf, a monthly poetry and music event held at The Belfry, Overstrand, Norfolk.

Oct 2021. Naomi read her winning poem ‘The ADHD Gardener’ at the Bristol Cathedral Poetry and Faith: Conversations About Diversity poetry festival.

July 2021. The launch of Importents, Naomi Foyle’s new poetry pamphlet from Waterloo Press.

Jan 2021. The launch of melt by Sarah Hymas and Blood and Water / ọbara na mmiri by Catherine Okoronkwo, two titles that Naomi Foyle edited for Waterloo Press. Both books available here.

2020: A poem, ‘Made from fibres not readily penetrated’, read on NER Out Loud, the New England Review podcast, with poems by Sasha Dugdale, Seni Seneviratne and Shazea Quraishi, from a feature on British poets guest edited by Marilyn Hacker.

Oct 2020: LIT UP launch. The Zoom launch of Breathe Before Thought by Uzmah Ali, I Want to Be the One You Think About at Night by Arun Jeetoo and tenderhead. by Jay Delise, three new titles Naomi edited for LIT UP, Waterloo Press’s mentoring and publishing scheme for emerging poets of colour.  All books available here! 

June 2020: Two poems, ‘Made from fibres not readily penetrated’ and ‘Minor Key/hole’ published in New England Review Vol 41 #2, in a feature on British poets edited by Marilyn Hacker.

July 2020: Announcement of the Winners of theMairtín Crawford Awards for Poetry and Short Story.  Naomi co-judged the Poetry Award with Moyra Donaldson.

Mon May 25 2020: LOCKDOWN Brixton BookJam (UK).  A Zoom event.

Mar 21 2020 BSFA VECTOR Reading Series: Solidarity Salon #8.  Livestreamed Science Fiction readings for Lockdown, archived on FB by the BSFA. I read a short story, the space operetta ‘Hebe’s Ocean’.

May 6th 2020: ‘Belfast Poet Mairtin Crawford Remembered’. My article about Mairtin Crawford and his poetry, published on the BBC Radio Ulster website after my appearance on The Culture Cafe with Marie-Louise Muir.

April 30 2020: Matt’s Art Chat #17. An interview with Prague-based Matt Micucci, covering the pandemic, poetry, SF, puppet theatre, and Boris Johnson’s soul (about which, sadly but predictably, I was wrong!)

April 28 2020: ‘Ma’at’s Feather’.  Celebrating National Poetry Month in the US, I was featured on Tattoosday, a Brooklyn-based Tattoo blog.

April 27 2020: Monday Night Poetry at KGB Bar (NYC). A Zoom event, though unfortunately the recording did not work.

Mar 27 2020: Chichester Poetry Online Open Mic. Guest Reader. Featuring the poems ‘If It Is a War’ and ‘The Cancer Breakthrough’ from Adamantine.

Mar 2 2020:   Poem of the Week: ‘Winterpause’ by Naomi Foyle, published in the Guardian with an appreciative essay by Carol Rumens.

Dec 31 1999:  ‘reQuesting’ from Adamantine published by Poetry Daily (US).