Meet the Team

Tracey Guiry

Tracey has led creative and cultural organisations for 30 years. She was Director of large visitor attractions before founding the South West's writer development agency, Literature Works with Alex Cluness, in 2007. She joined the Poetry Archive in 2016 and now produces, acquires and keeps recordings of poets reading their own work. She loves to discover and create new initiatives and partnerships which make poetry accessible to everyone, and spends much of her time raising funds to ensure innovative new projects can take hold and thrive. Her PhD was focused on representations of dementia in Children's literature. On days off you will find her making pottery, reading poetry to lovely people in care homes, or giving Forest Bathing guided walks through woodland.

Maggie Sullivan

Maggie is the Poetry Archive's administrator, supporting colleagues on all aspects of the Archive's work.

Maggie is a poet with two collections to date - Near Death (Domestic) (Tall Lighthouse, 2007) and the remote (Waterloo Press, 2013). A third Collection, By way of reply, is forthcoming from Waterloo Press. Maggie has been a Trustee of the Poetry Society and a mentor for Survivors' Poetry.

Her work has featured in Smiths Knoll, RIALTO, Obsessed with Pipework, Nth Position, Poets' Letter, the anthology Automatic Lighthouse, Orbis, Room (an anthology of poetry from the Tonbridge Poetry competition), Aesthetica, Magma poetry magazine, the Long Islander Newspaper (Walt Whitman column), the Shuffle Anthology (2007/08), and the Guernsey Arts competition 2011 - Poems on the Buses.

Oakley Flanagan

Oakley is the Archive's Digital Marketing and Development Manager. They also edit the Archive's monthly subscription mailout, The Insider, for which they regularly interview poets about their work.

Oakley is also a writer, poet, and playwright. As a playwright: 'This Queer House' (VAULT Festival, OPIA Collective). Their poetry appears in bath magg, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, The North, Under the Radar and Wasafiri. Oakley is an alum of Roundhouse Poetry Collective, The London Library Emerging Writers Programme, The Genesis Jewish Book Week Emerging Writers' Programme and Southbank New Poets Collective. They are a former winner of the ruth weiss Emerging Poet Award. Their pamphlet, G&T, is published by Out-Spoken Press.

Fiona Meadley

Fiona has been looking after the finances at the Poetry Archive since 2003 and enjoys working with poets.

She is a Trustee of the Gloucestershire Area Quaker Meeting, and formerly a Trustee of the Arnolfini in Bristol.

As a freelance artist she created multimedia installations at a number of museums and at Friends House, with the support of Arts Council England, the Welcome Trust and Quakers in Britain.

More about our team

Despite being a small team we have the support of fantastic experts and freelancers in roles supporting Archiving, rights negotiation, volunteer and project management.

Rights Negotiation: Connie Roberts

Volunteer Manager: Devi Chatterjee

Project Manager: Lou Brown

Our Chair is Robert Seatter and our President is Sir Daniel Day-Lewis. Our Board of Trustees has overall legal responsibility for the charity.

For enquiries, please contact us here.