sheilamannix

Sheila Mannix's writing has been broadcast on RTE Radio 1 and has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, Cyphers, Southword, Irish Left Review, The Bohemyth, The SHOp, The Poetry Bus, The Pickled Body, Burning Bush 2, The Quarryman, gorse, and Icarus (Ireland); Wurm im Apfel’s can can poezine (Scotland); Ping Pong, the journal of the Henry Miller Library, Akashic Books’ Thursdaze series and Tripwire: a journal of poetics (USA); Stride magazine, ZARF, Tears in the Fence, Shearsman, and Ludd Gang (UK). She was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions series 2013 for emerging Irish poets. Two poetry chapbooks - 'female corpse' and 'Lashed across the Skies' - are available free from online poetry publisher Smithereens Press and 'Dual Poet Reader: One' containing the sequence 'You built you framing you are multiplying' is available from hardPressed Poetry. She is included in Martin Corless-Smith's 2018 Free Poetry Series anthology of contemporary innovative Irish poets edited by Ellen Dillon. She was a founding member, with Tim Furey, of the art group, 'invisible pilots'. Their Situationist-inspired art work was documented in Circa magazine and the book Cork Caucus: on art, possibility & democracy edited by Shep Steiner and Trevor Joyce. Her photography has been published in the French magazine, L’Artiste and The Bohemyth (Ireland). Exhibitions include: the differantiel of techne at The Guesthouse, Cork, as part of The Avant Festival 2013; The End of Europe at Working Artists Studios, Skibbereen, 2014; Notes on the Lusitania, a text-based installation at the Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, May 2015; Is ‘mountain’ a code word?, ink drawings, text and photographs, at The Guesthouse, Cork, July 2016 - June 2017. She participated in the performance art piece, Amazon Delivers Capital (a Just In Time production) at the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork for the SoundEye Festival of innovative and experimental poetry, sound and performance, 2014. Her 30-page performance poem for 4 voices, 'Zoopoiesis', was performed at the SoundEye Festival and at the O’Bheal poetry reading series, Cork, 2015. She read new work at SoundEye 2016 which was subsequently published in Shearsman magazine (UK). 2018 readings included a fundraiser for the Cork Rape Crisis Centre at the Roundy, Cork, curated by Tina Pisco. She was a 'Featured Writer' in Trinity College Dublin's literary magazine, Icarus, published on 22 March 2018, and read at the launch with poets Patrick Chapman, John Kearns, and Edwin Kelly. In 2019, she reviewed Gare St Lazare Ireland's production of Samuel Beckett's How It Is (Part 2) for The Beckett Circle. She was invited to read at the Prague Microfestival, an international festival of Writing, Art, Film, Theory & Performance 30 October - 1 November 2020. Post-pandemic, she studied permaculture at Kinsale College for two years. She subsequently worked on an organic flower farm and as a Conservation Manager for Nature Network Ireland. She is now back writing and publishing poetry informed by environmentalism and ecopoetics. In 2025, she read at the launch of Poetry Ireland Review, at the SoundEye Festival, on Culture Night for Nature Network Ireland, and at Kinsale Literary Festival. Her latest work appears in Poetry Ireland Review (issue 145) Spring 2025 and Ludd Gang (UK) December 2025. To contact her, please email sheilamannix@hotmail.com