AGNES MEADOWS is a London-based poet/writer who has toured nationally and internationally, giving readings, workshops and residencies all over the world, encouraging people to express themselves through poetry. She started her working life as a journalist, and has lived overseas in a number of countries. Agnes was a Guest Poet at the Austin International Poetry Festival in Texas for ten consecutive years, twice winning awards for Outstanding Writing, and has read three times at the Babylon International Festival of Arts and Culture in Iraq. For 16 years, from 2004, Agnes ran LOOSE MUSE Women's Writers Night in London, and spearheaded regular satellite events elsewhere in England. She has also advised Channel 4 TV on poetry, and is also a judge on the Elmbridge Literature Competition, an annual global competition now in its 20th year. Agnes has had eight collections of her poetry published. 'In The Footsteps of Marco Polo' will be her ninth.
