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: '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 Marton is looking forward to her writer's residencies in Sweden (Bergman Center– she is going to do research in and around Ingmar Bergman’s house on Fårö, aBaltic Sea island just north of the island of Gotland), in Costa Rica (Mauser Harmony with Nature Foundation and Jaguar Luna Cultural Arts Collective), in Spain (The Valparaiso Foundation),in Greece (Writers’ Retreats in Greece) and in Ireland (Shankill Castle). She is polishing the manuscript of her second full poetry collection 'For Waltz You Don't Need a Compass', to be published by Red Squirrel Press
Author Links
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/agnesmartonpoet/?ref=br_rs
'Captain Fly's Bucket List' Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/captafly/
Moria Books: http://www.moriapoetry.com/locofo.html
Guardian of the Edge exhibition page: http://sabotagereviews.com/2015/05/09/saboteur-awards-best-collaborative-work