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Maggie Sullivan

Maggie was born and raised in London, where she still lives. A respected figure on the capital’s poetry scene she is a trustee of the Poetry Society as well as a mentor for Survivors Poetry.

publications:
near death (domestic)

Her writing is spare, memorable and often funny as she negotiates storms worked up 'at the heart of the house' in a manner akin to Alan Bennett.

                                                                                          Peter Carpenter

 

The Weather on Our Street from near death (domestic)

 

A hurricane jumped the fence,

blew in through the door

we’d forgotten to lock,

found the soul of the most fragile,

worked up a storm

at the heart of the house, 

one dead

three of us beached with the debris;

not a chair left unbroken

and only half a pot of glue

to re-shape a future. 

You’d know our house now for its hoard

of sticking plaster and umbrellas,

still trying to hold the corner.