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Writer, Theatre Artist, Feral Autist

 

Latest Publication: Salt & Snow

The cover of Salt & Snow, featuring a photo of a bronze salt cellar, tipped on its side and overflowing with salt out of which emerges a small violet flower. Photo by John Luke Chapman. Salt & Snow, Naomi Foyle’s fourth poetry collection, is a triptych of elegies. The book contains tributes to departed family members, friends and writers including John Berger, Judith Kazantzis, Niall McDevitt and Gwendolyn Leick; and pays homage to victims of political violence from George Floyd to civilians caught up or killed in the full scale invasion of Ukraine, the Hamas war crimes of Oct 7th and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Concluding with a mythopoetic sonnet crown circling themes of eco-apocalypse and regeneration, Salt & Snow is a finely interwoven meditation on grief, witness, whiteness and climate crisis.

Cover image ‘In Salt’ by John Luke Chapman / @darklingeye.

Read more about Salt & Snow and order it here.

 

Latest Musical Collaboration

‘Boas & Blindfolds’, a poem in Naomi Foyle’s debut collection The Night Pavilion, was released in 2023 as a song by The Vales, a musical collective comprising London-based singer-songwriters Nev Hawkins and Kirsten Morrison, and lyricist Naomi Foyle. Vox and video by Kirsten Morrison. Cover photo by john chapman / darkling eye. Watch this space for more songs from The Vales in 2025.

Latest Theatre Piece: ASTRA Multimedia Theatre

ASTRA is a multimedia theatre production for adults based on Naomi Foyle’s eco-SciFi series The Gaia Chronicles, designed and directed by Raven Kaliana and funded by Arts Council England and the University of Chichester. BSL Interpretation and Audio Description are integrated into this gritty adaptation written and produced by Naomi Foyle. ASTRA was performed in the summer of 2022 as a work-in-progress at Brighton Fringe, Chichester Fringe and a community sharing in Brighton, followed by Q&A discussions on the show’s themes, which include racism, disability rights, child abuse and climate crisis. To view the ASTRA mini documentary and trailer, visit the ASTRA website. 

ASTRA won the 2022 Brighton Fringe ONCA Green Curtain Award for work that engages artists and audiences with social and environmental challenges. The show is currently being up-scaled with a new international team.