MYRA SCHNEIDER – British poet

Allow your mind to open to this moment and your arms

to rise as they lift the palpable blue

(from Lifting the Sky) in the book Lifting the Sky

We can’t haul

the past up like a bucket of water from a well.

(from Sutton Hoo) in the book Lifting the Sky

when you peel a blood orange

and eat the ruby segments

while gazing at himalayas of cloud

(from It’s Possible) in the book The Door to Colour

Allow your mind to open to this moment and your arms

to rise as they lift the palpable blue

(from Lifting the Sky) in the book Lifting the Sky

We can’t haul

the past up like a bucket of water from a well.

(from Sutton Hoo) in the book Lifting the Sky

when you peel a blood orange

and eat the ruby segments

while gazing at himalayas of cloud

(from It’s Possible) in the book The Door to Colour

News, Events & Activities

New Collection – The Disappearing

My new book will be published on 14th September 2026 and can be pre-ordered from Poetry Space, me, or Amazon Books for £9.95.

In-depth review

In-depth review of Believing in the Planet by Alwyn Marriage

Poetry Please - BBC Radio 4

My poem Seahorses was broadcast on Poetry Please Radio 4 on January 10th, 2021.

My Tutoring

I run two monthly seminar groups, tutorials and one-off workshops.

Latest Publications

Believing in the Planet

Poetry Space, 2024

Siege and Symphony

Second Light Publications, 2021

Lifting The Sky

Ward Wood Publishing, 2018

Five Views of Mount Fuji

Fisherrow, 2018

The Door to Colour

Enitharmon Press, 2014

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Reviews about my work

Les Murray, regarding my book ‘The Panic Bird’

“Myra Schneider’s poems are typically low key but rich with delays. And often these delays are really arrivals, intricately discovered, alight all over the room. She has herself arrived, and delivers.”

Jane Holland, regarding my work in Poetry London

“… worth getting hold of if you like your poetry emotionally vulnerable, richly allusive and superbly poised between past and present.”