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Maggie Mackay

loves family history, winding it into lyrical poems in print and online journals such as Ink Sweat &Tears, Prole, Spelt, Southlight and in several anthologies, including ‘MeToo’ and ‘Bloody Amazing!’, both winners of Sabotage Awards. Her pamphlet The Heart of the Run was published by Picaroon Poetry in 2018 and her collection A West Coast Psalter, Kelsay Books in 2021. The Poetry Archive WordView 2020 awarded her poem ‘How to Distil a Guid Scotch Malt’ a place in the permanent collection. She is a MA poetry graduate of Manchester Metropolitan University and a reviewer for Sphinx Review.

    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)
    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)
    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)
    What does Maggie Mackay say?

    What does Maggie Mackay say?

    I found poetry through the Open University creative writing courses which I studied after retirement from teaching ...
    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
    Four black and white head shots of the poets in this article arranged in a grid

    Four thrilling new worlds

    Maggie Mackay looks at the four winning pamphlets of The Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition 2021
    Edwin Morgan in front of a large bookcase

    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
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