Naomi Foyle Explained

Naomi Foyle
Native Name:	Naomi Foyle
Birth Date:	February 22, 1967
Birth Place:	London, United Kingdom
Occupation:	poet, novelist, essayist, editor, translator, activist
Nationality:	British
Genre:	British literature

Naomi Foyle (born 22 February 1967) is a British-Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, editor, translator and activist. For her poetry and essays about Ukraine, she was awarded the 2014 Hryhorii Skovoroda Prize.^[1]

Life and career

Foyle was born in London, UK. She was brought up in London, Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Philosophy in 1990.

Her book, Seoul Survivors, was praised by the Guardian.^[2] Library Journal recommended the series Astra "for Hunger Games fans of all ages".^[3]

In 2021, Foyle disclosed on her blog that she had been diagnosed with autism the previous year at the age of 53.^[4]

Selected publications

Prose

• Seoul Survivors Jo Fletcher Books, 2013,
• Astra: Book One of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2014.
• Rook Song: Book Two of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2015.
• The Blood of the Hoopoe: Book Three of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2016.
• Stained Light: Book Four of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2018.

Poetry collections

• The Night Pavilion Waterloo Press, 2008.
• The World Cup Waterloo Press, 2010.
• Adamantine Red Hen/Pighog Press, 2019.

Poetry pamphlets

• Curdled Cream: A Collection of Snarls. Kinkos, Toronto. 1990.
• Febrifuge treeplantsink press, 1996
• Citas Impossibles/Impossible Engagements, 1997
• Forgive the Rain: more exceptionally useless poems Back Pack Press, 1997 [2nd Ed. 1999]
• Songs from the Blood Shed Window Grate Press, 1996 [2nd ed 2000]
• Aphrodite's Answering Machine: Erotic Vignettes Urban Pillow, 2002
• Red Hot & Bothered Lansdowne Press, 2003
• Canada Echo Room Press, 2004
• Grace of the Gamblers: A Chantilly Chantey Waterloo Press, 2010
• No Enemy but Time Waterloo Press, 2017

Edited anthologies & collections (with introductions)

• Mairtin Crawford: Selected Poems. Lagan Press, 2005
• A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books, 2017)

Co-translations

• Enemies Outside / Enemigos Afuera by Mori Ponsowy. Translated by Mori Ponsowy and Naomi Foyle.
• Wounds of the Cloud by Yasser Khanger. Al Ma'mal Foundation, 2016. Translated by Naomi Foyle, Marilyn Hacker and Do'a Ali.

External links

• Naomi Foyle's website
• A Flight over the Black Sea (London, Waterloo Press), (Політ над Чорним морем), 2014 (poems by Ihor Pavlyuk in English. Translated from Ukrainian by Stephen Komarnyckyj, foreword to a book written recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature Mo Yan and Naomi Foyle, Steve Komarnyckyj, Dmytro Drozdovskyi),^[5]

Notes and References

1. http://zenoagency.com/news/naomi-foyles-poetry-wins-award/ Naomi Foyle's Poetry Wins Award!
2. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jun/14/science-fiction-roundup-reviews Mayhem by Sarah Pinborough, Red Moon by Benjamin Percy, Angelfall by Susan Ee, Seoul Survivors by Naomi Foyle and Carpathia by Matt Forbeck
3. https://www.libraryjournal.com/?global_search=Naomi+Foyle Naomi Foyle. Astra
4. Web site: Foyle . Naomi . An Autastic Announcement! . Naomi Foyle . 11 March 2023 . 20 November 2021.
5. https://waterloopress.co.uk/books/flight-over-the-black-sea/ Ihor Pavlyuk. A Flight Over the Black Sea (2014)