Mandy's poetry has been broadcast on BBC radio and television and has won a number of awards. Her poems have been published in magazines and newspapers such as the Radio Times and The Guardian. Mandy is a contributor in the A&C Black's Poetry Writers' Yearbook 2007 and she received a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2005.
Mandy visits schools and provides INSET for teachers. She also delivers workshops for young people and adults in community venues and has worked in arts venues such as TATE Liverpool, The Royal Festival Hall and the Barbican. She works as a free-lance educationalist with the Children's Poetry Bookshelf and for National Association of Writers in Education.
Mandy's work for children appears in anthologies by Hodder, Wayland, Oxford University Press, Pearson Education and Bloomsbury. Her work with schools has been featured in the TES.
Mandy reads her work at poetry venues across the UK. To enquire about bookings for workshops, school visits or readings, please send email via the contacts page.
"Mandy Coe's poems make us see things: they transfigure that world-around-us we think we know but really only half-see." Matt Simpson