FOYLE, Naomi
Poet, novelist, performer and professional Tarot Card reader, Naomi Foyle was born in London, grew up in Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan, and after a decade of globetrotting, now lives in Brighton.
Her writing, which often draws on her peripatetic past, is motivated by the paradoxical desire to both expose painful truths and celebrate the intense sensual beauty of life.
Originally trained in theatre, Naomi has collaborated with artists, musicians and filmmakers on award-winning project. She has also published reviews, travel writing and short fiction.
An AHRB and AHRB scholarship winner, Naomi holds an MA in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths College, and a doctorate in Creative Writing from Bangor University. She has been awarded grants from Arts Council England and the Canada Council.
‘Naomi Foyle’s voice is confident, fervent, erotic, lyrical, distinctive. Her writing is bold and unflinching, imaginative … thrilling and disconcertingly edgy.‘ — The PBS Bulletin, Autumn 2008
‘Naomi Foyle’s brilliantly detailed, sensually absorbed, light-saturated mix of personal findings and their extension into the political, make her poetry my sort of poetry … I go to her poems to see things shine clear as the light in a diamond.’ -– Jeremy Reed
‘Truly original new work in verse and prose, as well as some adventurous, idiomatic translations, unsettle complacency and challenge expectations. Ostentatious, flirtatious, sometimes witty, technically ambitious and expansively sensuous, these poems [are] innovative but far from obscure, entertaining but never escapist.’ –- Carol Rumens