Naomi Foyle

Naomi Foyle
Native name	Naomi Foyle
Born	(1967-02-22) February 22, 1967 London, United Kingdom
Occupation	poet, novelist, essayist, editor, translator, activist
Nationality	British
Genre	British literature
Website
www.naomifoyle.com

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.

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. Library Journal recommended the series Astra "for Hunger Games fans of all ages".

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

Selected publications

Prose

• Seoul Survivors Jo Fletcher Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78087-600-9
• Astra: Book One of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78087-636-8
• Rook Song: Book Two of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78206-921-8
• The Blood of the Hoopoe: Book Three of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78206-924-9
• Stained Light: Book Four of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78206-927-0

Poetry collections

• The Night Pavilion Waterloo Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-906742-05-8
• The World Cup Waterloo Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-906742-21-8
• Adamantine Red Hen/Pighog Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-906309-41-1

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 ISBN 978-1-906742-17-1
• 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) ISBN 978-0-9957675-3-9

Co-translations

• Enemies Outside / Enemigos Afuera by Mori Ponsowy. Translated by Mori Ponsowy and Naomi Foyle. ISBN 978-1-906742-25-6
• Wounds of the Cloud by Yasser Khanger. Al Ma'mal Foundation, 2016. Translated by Naomi Foyle, Marilyn Hacker and Do'a Ali. ISBN 978-90-825649-1-4

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), ISBN 978-1-906742-70-6