My new collection, Wish - new and selected poems will be published by Greenwich Exchange on 27th January 2025. Click on the book covers to read sample poems and watch videos. Wish, everlove, Degrees of Twilight, Ally Pally Prison Camp and Poems for the Planet are available through my shop.
Poems from Maggie's six previous collections – about the strength of women, concern for our planet, and hope in the power of love – are gathered here alongside bitter-sweet new poems about the joys and fears of a grandmother in this troubled, vulnerable and precious world.
‘Here is a profound act of poetic, elegiac empathy, a love song to us all and to the earth we love, share and ravage.’ Jacqueline Saphra.
Four eco-poets contributed to this pamphlet, published in 2020. Maggie Butt, Julian Bishop, Sarah Doyle and Cheryl Moskowitz share a pressing concern for the perilous state of our planet.
The passage of time is tangible in my fifth collection. These poems use history, memory, work and travel as lenses to examine the inevitable pains and sharp pleasures at the heart of our transient lives.
A sumptuous full-colour hagiography of imaginary patron saints, with poems illustrated by the staff and students of Middlesex University’s BA Illustration course.
During the first world war, more than 3,000 civilians were imprisoned at Alexandra Palace in north London. This illustrated book is a moving collage of extracts from the prisoners’ letters and memoirs, plus photographs, paintings and poems.
Lipstick was my first full collection, published in 2007. These poems cross the world to look with with admiration at the resilience of women. They touch, with acute insight and dry humour, on subjects as various as war, travel, and love.
Pocket sized poems described as ‘tender, hopeful, and unreasonably delightful,’ ‘witty, wise, original and compassionate,’ ‘lyrical, highly visual and that dance off the page.’