What’s left at the end of the world
Maggie Mackay reviews Sensitive to Temperature by Serena Alagappan (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)
Maggie Mackay
Limos : acceptance, smirom : peace
Maggie Mackay reviews Didicoy by Karen Downs-Barton (Smith|Doorstop Books, 2023)
Of difference, and of faith and its loss
Maggie Mackay reviews Hymnal by Julia Bell (Parthian, 2023)
Something beginning with earth
Maggie Mackay reviews Desperate Fishwives by Lindsay Macgregor (Molecular Press, Geneva, 2022)
Your gift living on in cracked pots carried from garden to garden
Maggie Mackay reviews The Doll's Hospital by Jenny Robb (Yaffle, 2022)
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)
What does Maggie Mackay say?
I found poetry through the Open University creative writing courses which I studied after retirement from teaching ...
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
Four thrilling new worlds
Maggie Mackay looks at the four winning pamphlets of The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition 2021
The Edwin Morgan Poetry Award 2020
Maggie Mackay considers pamphlets by the winner, runner up and shortlisted poets, and looks at what they have done since