We are excited to announce the arrival of Agnes Marton this summer.
Agnes has chosen to spend 9 days in La Bodeguita in Dafni in order to work on her latest writing project.
Agnes Marton is a Hungarian-born poet, writer, librettist & Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (UK). Recent publications include her collection ‘Captain Fly’s Bucket List‘ and four chapbooks with Moria Books (USA).
She won the National Poetry Day Competition in the UK, and an anthology she edited (Estuary: A Confluence of Art and Poetry) won the Saboteur Award. Her work is widely anthologized, some examples are: ‘Alice – Ekphrasis at the British Library‘ & ‘Anthem: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen‘.
Her fiction was called ‘exceptional’ at the prestigious Disquiet Literary Contest (USA). In the award-winning poetry exhibition project Guardian of the Edge, 33 accomplished visual artists responded to her poetry. She has been a resident poet at the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge, on a research boat in the Arctic Circle, and also in Iceland, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Canada and the USA. She is based in Luxembourg.
Agnes is looking forward to her writer’s residencies in Ireland (Tyrone Guthrie Centre), the Azores (Disquiet), Serbia (Belgrade Art Studio), Spain (The Valparaiso Foundation) and Greece (Writers’ Retreats Greece) so that she could finish her first novel.
Also, she is going to polish the manuscript of her second full poetry collection ‘For Waltz You Don’t Need a Compass‘ during her residency at the Museo de Arte Moderno Chiloé, Chile (the manuscript was a finalist of the Munster Literature Centre international competition).
Agnes, we wish you a warm welcome & hope that our Residency will come up to your expectations.