Amara Amaryah is a London-born Jamaican poet, essayist, writer and artist. Her poems have been received and shared on stages and pages internationally. Her writings are interested in voice - often voicelessness - and the oceanic via the diasporic. The ‘Life Is In Love With Me’ and ‘The Easeful Place’ newsletters are homes for her collective uplifting and musings in prose. The Opposite of an Exodus is her debut poetry pamphlet (Bad Betty Press, 2021).
Poetry.
Poems published in literary journals including Wasafiri, The Caribbean Writer, Lolwe, PREE Lit Mag, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal and more. A selection of Amara’s poems were translated in the Colombian publication Arcadia.
International performances include Cosmopoética’s literary festival in Córdoba, Spain and a virtual reading at the USVI Literary Festival & Book Fair 2023 as part of the Writer’s Bacchanal. She has also read on various stages in the UK including Birmingham’s Hippodrome as a part of the Hippodrome Young Poets collective and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Other readings and features include Poetry Business and Bedtime Stories for the End of the World podcast. Her poems were longlisted for the Women Poets' Prize in 2020.
Amara’s debut poetry pamphlet ‘The Opposite of an Exodus’ was published by Bad Betty Press in 2021.
Writings
& Essays.
Travel essays and articles published in Time Out, ESSENCE, Condé Nast Traveler, Travel Noire, Here Magazine (AWAY) and AMAKA studios.
Writer for The Good Trade, ESSENCE, Forbes Health, Well+Good, SELF, POPSUGAR, Black Ballad and more. Lifestyle copywriting and content editing for The Poetry Archive and 21Ninety.
Life Is In Love
With Me.
Life Is In Love With Me is a newsletter dedicated to stories and letters from around the world. Find travel memories and life’s love lessons in essay form.
Mindful Artist.
Founder of The Easeful Place newsletter and community. Curated journal prompts, wellness resources & community building for globalist creators and writers.
Writing workshop facilitator via The Easeful Place and external communities (Trust and Travel, The Mix UK and more).
Writer for Talawa Theatre’s TYPT:16 sold-out production ‘HATCH’.
Travelling artist featured in Travel Noire, Jack’s Flight Club, AWAY and Visit Jamaica.
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A portfolio/ manifesto
Making art and community everywhere I land.
Imagining big for all, always.