Allie Esiri
British actress and writer (born 1967) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Allie Esiri (born 26 January 1967), formerly Allie Byrne,[1] is a British writer/poetry curator and former stage, film, and television actress.
Allie Esiri | |
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Born | Allison Byrne (1967-01-26) 26 January 1967 (age 57) |
Alma mater | St Catharine's College, Cambridge |
Occupation(s) | Poetry curator, anthologist, app creator |
Spouse | Mark Esiri |
Children | 3 |
Esiri creates and compiles poetry apps, books and yearly shows at the National Theatre and major literary festivals. Esiri began with two bestselling poetry apps: The Love Book, an interactive literary app on iOS with readers including Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hiddleston and Emma Watson and iF Poems, an educational poetry app, the accompanying hardback and e-book iF: A Treasury of Poems for Almost Every Possibility. Esiri's first of her series of anthologies published by Pan Macmillan is the bestselling A Poem for Every Night of the Year which won the IBW Book award 2017. Her anthologies have been picked as best books of the year in the Observer, New Statesman and The Times.
Esiri's anthology, A Poem for Every Day of the Year was published in hardback and audiobook by Pan Macmillan on 7 September 2017, Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year was published in hardback, e-book and audiobook by Pan Macmillan UK in September 2019 and by Penguin in October 2020 in the United States. A Poet for Every Day of the Year was published in hardback, e-book and audiobook by Pan Macmillan UK in September 2021; A Nursery Rhyme for Every Night of the Year was illustrated by Emily Faccini and published by Macmillan Children's Books in March 2023. The hardback and e-book of 365 Poems for Life was published by Bluebird Books, also Pan Macmillan, on 5 October 2023.