Wish - new and selected poems.
Published January 2025 by Greenwich Exchange.
The 21 new poems in Wish are addressed to my young grand-daughters, to be read when they grow up.
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.
'This is a poetry of miracles, unfailingly fresh and exuberant, written with clear-eyed, exemplary warmth. Her lines are flooded by intense experiences of a physical world, both lovely and threatened, and of human love whose tenderness is as 'long-lasting as uranium, thorium, light.’ Alison Brackenbury
Poems from previous collections, also in Wish.
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2025 readings from Wish
26th January
Keats House, London
22nd February
Faversham Lit Fest, Kent
The Guildhall, 3.30 - 4.20
With Nancy Charley, Fiona Sinclair and Melinda Walker
4th March
8pm Ouse Muse, Bedford
16- 20 St Peter’s Street, MK40 2NN
Open Mic
5th March
7pm Enfield poets, Forty Hall Enfield with Katherine Gallagher
Open Mic
9th March
7.30 pm 99 Torriano Avenue NW5 2 RX
Torriano, London, with the North London Stanza group
Open Mic
22nd April
Not a Bad Word, London
Open Mic
23rd April
Oxford Poetry circle, Oxford With Sue Hubbard
2nd May
Langley Marsh, Somerset. With Nicky Saunter
13th May
Greenwich, London. With Maggie Harris
18th May
Broadstairs, Kent
17th June
Buntingford Library
Q & A and Open Mic
9th September
Lumen, London
24th October
Ver poets, St Albans. With Maggie Harris
12th December
Ware poets, Ware. With Maggie Harris
Further dates to be confirmed.
View films of poems selected from previous collections. Films of new poems coming shortly.
View readings of poems from ‘everlove’: