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’: