Dr Naomi Foyle

AWARDS AND PRIZES

ASTRA won the 2022 Brighton Fringe ONCA Green Curtain Award for work that engages artists and audiences with social and environmental challenges.

‘The Phand’ was longlisted in the 2018 BBC National Short Story Award.

‘And Then I Drank Two Midnight Hot Toddies, Went Home and Watched that Viral Video on the Starving Polar Bear’ was longlisted in the 2018 National Poetry Competition.

‘On Advising a Young Man from Galway to do a Second MA in Biodiversity’ Won the Additional Prize in the 2012 RSPB/The Rialto Nature Poetry Competition

‘Shaking the Bottle’ was a runner-up in the 2010 Academi Cardiff International Poetry Prize.

The Night Pavilion (Waterloo Press, 2008) was an Autumn 2008 Poetry Book Society Recommendation

Red Hot & Bothered won the 2008 Apples & Snakes The Book Bites Back competition.

‘The Holiday’ was long-listed in the Bridport Poetry Prize 2006.

‘The Geneva Conventions’ was long-listed in the Bridport Poetry Prize 2005.

Good Definition won First Prize in the 2004 Hastings Word About Town Literary Festival filmpoem competition.

For her poetry and essays about Ukraine, the Hyrhorii Skovoroda Prize, 2014 (Ukraine)

Poetry Collections

Salt & Snow (Waterloo Press, forthcoming in 2025). Collection.

Importents (Waterloo Press, 2021). Pamphlet

Adamantine (Red Hen/Pighog Press, 2019). Collection.

No Enemy but Time (Waterloo Press, 2017). Pamphlet.

The World Cup (Waterloo Press, 2010). Collection.

Grace of the Gamblers (Waterloo Press, 2010). Pamphlet.

The Night Pavilion (Waterloo Press, 2008). Collection.

Red Hot & Bothered (Lansdowne Press, 2003). Pamphlet.

Edited Anthologies and Translations

A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books, 2017). Edited by Naomi Foyle.

Enemies Outside / Enemigos Afuera by Mori Ponsowy (Waterloo Press, 2010). Translated by Mori Ponsowy and Naomi Foyle.

Wounds of a Cloud by Yasser Khanger (Al-Ma’mal Foundation: Jerusalem). Co-translated by

Marilyn Hacker, Do’a Ali and Naomi Foyle

Theatre, Verse Drama and Libretti

ASTRA: Multimedia Theatre. Performed at Brighton Fringe and Chichester Fringe, 2022.

‘The Strange Wife’ in Sixty-Six Books: 20th Century Writers Speak to the King James Bible. (Oberon Books, 2011). Verse drama produced at The Bush Theatre 2011.

Hush: An Opera in Two Bestial Acts. Libretto for a chamber opera, produced at Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto 1990.

Selected Academic Articles

‘Burying the Wet Computer: Toward a Utopian SF Eco-Poetics’ in Corroding the Now: Poetry + Science | SF (London: Veer Press, 2023)

‘Govegate and the Postcolonial Professor’ in Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Study (Vol 20, Issue 1, 2018)

‘The Ballad as Site of Rebellion: Gender, Orality and the Granuaile Aislingi’ in Interfaces of the Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media, ed Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy. (Wilfred Laurier UP, 2012)

‘Or Daughter’, chapter from Astra, in MaMSIE: Studies in the Maternal (London, 2012)

Selected Reviews and Other Literary Articles

‘Shuhada’/Sinéad’ in Critical Muslim 48: Saliha (2023)

Theatre Review of Grenfell in the Words of Survivors by Gillian Slovo. WritersMosaic (Royal Literary Fund, 2023).

‘Eternity’s Sunrise: Keeping the Faith Post-COP27’, in Critical Muslim 45: Transitions (2023)

‘Towards an inclusive feminism’, a tribute to bell hooks for WritersMosaic (Royal Literary Fund, 2023)

‘Liberty, Hypocrisy, Neutrality’ in Critical Muslim 42: Liberty (2022)

‘Autism, Yusuf and I’ in Critical Muslim 41: Bodies (2022)

‘The World Tree’ in Critical Muslim 39: World Order (2021)

‘Belfast Poet Mairtin Crawford Remembered’ on the BBC Radio Ulster website (May 2020)

‘Cancer: Key to Utopia’ in Critical Muslim: Utopias (Summer 2017)

‘Palestine and (Human) Nature’ in Critical Muslim: Nature (Summer 2016)

‘Steps on the Silk Road: My Approach to Islamic SF’ in Critical Muslim: Educational Reform (Summer 2015)

‘Writing in Foreign Blood: A Visit to Ukraine’ in pulsemedia.org (Jan 2015)

Review of Out of It by Selma Dabbagh (Bloomsbury 2011) in Critical Muslim 3 (Autumn 2012)

Introduction to Selected Poems: Mairtín Crawford (Lagan Press, Belfast, 2005).

Online articles for the Linen Hall Library on five contemporary Northern Irish poets: Medbh McGuckian, Mairtín Crawford, Martin Mooney, Moyra Donaldson, and Brendan Cleary. (Spring 2005)

‘The Petting Zoo’: literary manifesto in The Big Spoon, Spring 2002.

‘Art and War’: personal statement in Fortnight Special Supplement (August 2001)

Tribute to Allen Ginsberg in The Big Spoon, Summer 1997 (Belfast).

SELECTED CONTRIBUTIONS TO ANTHOLOGIES

‘Impossible Orchids’ in A Palace of Verandas / Palácio das Varandas, edited by Peter Pegnall (Portugal: Traça Editora, 2024)

‘What About the Risks?’ in Dear Vaccine, edited by Naomi Shihab Nye (Kent State University Press, 2022)

‘2020’ and ‘Lockdown’ in Pestilence, edited by Peter Pegnall (Lagan Press, 2020)

‘Last of His Tribe’, ‘but who’s counting’, ‘collective haibun’ and ‘welcome’ in fabric-ation: slip back to source, a journey of materials, edited by Kay Syrad and Claire Whistler (Elephant Press, 2020)

‘Your Summer Arm’ in Smart Devices: 52 Poems from the Guardian ‘Poem of the Week’, edited and introduced by Carol Rumens (Carcanet Press, 2019)

‘Iatrogenic Sex’ in When They Start to Love You as a Machine You Should Run (New Rivers Press, 2019)

‘Hebe’s Ocean’ in The Jo Fletcher Anthology (Jo Fletcher Books, London, 2016)

‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral’ in The Poetry of Sex (Viking/Penguin, 2014)

‘Star Pitch’ in Suspect Device: A Reader in Hard Edged Fiction, ed. Stewart Home (Serpent’s Tail, London UK, 1998)