Aoife Mannix is an Irish writer and poet based in London. She has just completed a UK tour of her poetry and music show Growing Up An Alien with Apples & Snakes, supported by Arts Council England. A book of the poems from the show was published by Tall Lighthouse in 2007. Also available is her first collection of poetry The Elephant In The Corner in 2005. Her new collection Turn The Clocks Upside Down will be out in September. Her first novel Heritage of Secrets is due to be published by Lubin & Kleyner in late 2008.
She has performed throughout the UK as well as Europe, Taiwan, Thailand, and India, for the British Council. Her work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, London Live, Resonance FM and the BBC World Service as well as published in numerous anthologies and magazines. She has been commissioned to write for the National Gallery, the Medway Fuse Festival and Glasgow 2020
“Aoife Mannix is a sparkling performer of her own work, and it’s well worth attending her readings if you get the opportunity. Her collection the elephant in the corner poetry combines lyrical intensity with gentle, self-deprecating humour” – Catherine Smith, The New Writer
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.
Mister Gee is a co-winner of a Sony Gold Award for Radio as the resident poet on the Russell Brand Show on BBC Radio 2, and is the resident poet of the hit West-End musical Into The Hoods.
From humble beginnings as a Hip-Hop DJ, Mister Gee honed his spoken word skills as the host of the renowned performance poetry club Brix-tongue and is now one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. He has performed at the New York Nuyorican Poets Café and the Black Lily night in Philadelphia (home to Jill Scott and the Roots), as well as at the Edinburgh Festival. He runs workshops in schools and his album Poetry in the Key of Gee was released to critical acclaim.