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Maggie Mackay

A tangle of snow covered beaches, a small red bird sits on one, from a distance it could be mistaken for a heart.

I with my mother became we

Maggie Mackay reviews Grief’s Alphabet by Carrie Etter (Seren, 2024)

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Close up photograph of a buttercup flower, blurred water is behind.

Alert, electric, alive

Maggie Mackay reviews A Change in the Air by Jane Clarke (Bloodaxe, 2023)

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A waterfall on a foggy mountainside. It's high, and the middle of ... well, you get it.

We have an opportunity to listen 

Maggie Mackay reviews High Nowhere by Jean Atkin (Indigo Dreams, 2023)

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Blurred black and white photograph of a woman walking with an umbrella.

Sunset over Sky dishes

Maggie Mackay reviews 20 by Holly Magill (Drunk Muse Press, 2023)

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Close up of large lettering on an orange background, the lettering contains a photograph showing what looks like a shoreline.

What’s left at the end of the world

Maggie Mackay reviews Sensitive to Temperature by Serena Alagappan (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)

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Section of book cover, red background with parts of letters in black and white.

Limos : acceptance, smirom : peace

Maggie Mackay reviews Didicoy by Karen Downs-Barton (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)

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Part of a graphic showing the top of a wooden noticeboard such as one would seen a church. The top has a small flower cutout.

Of difference, and of faith and its loss

Maggie Mackay reviews Hymnal by Julia Bell (Parthian, 2023)

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Some part words in yellow font on a green background. Basically, the cover of this book is yellow text on a green background, so to make it look just a little bit more interesting for the front page I have zoomed right in and cropped the image. Voilà.

Something beginning with earth

Maggie Mackay reviews Desperate Fishwives by Lindsay Macgregor (Molecular Press, Geneva, 2022)

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Black background with the face of a china doll, cracked, with piercing blue eyes.

Your gift living on in cracked pots carried from garden to garden 

Maggie Mackay reviews The Doll's Hospital by Jenny Robb (Yaffle, 2022)

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A painting of a woman shelling peas, the clouds are bright, she has red hair and a blue blouse with small white flowers on it

Woods, words, a sword of spells bunched up on a larch

Maggie Mackay reviews Shelling Peas with My Grandmother in the Gorgiolands by Sarah Wimbush (Bloodaxe, 2022)

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What does Maggie Mackay say?

I found poetry through the Open University creative writing courses which I studied after retirement from teaching ...

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The three pamphlet covers, Sarah's is white with a green diagonal flash, Judi's has the title in a blue oval on a background pencil drawing of a river and rocks and Hugo's is the shadow of banister railings non a light brown background.

Three pamphlets: Sarah Mnatzaganian, Judi Sutherland and Hugo Williams

Matthew Paul reviews Lemonade in the Armenian Quarter by Sarah Mnatzaganian, Maggie Mackay reviews Following Teisa by Judi Sutherland and Hilary Menos reviews Badlands by Hugo Williams

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