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Maggie Sullivan

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Hi everybody!  I’m delighted to have been asked to be Poet in Resident for the Poet’s Letter during July and hope this page proves fruitful for those logging on; a little inspiration.  I’ve been an avid reader of poetry from an early age but only began writing in my late twenties.  Since then it’s been a long haul, to shape the instinct to write into work that finds a resonance and acceptance with a wider readership, learning from a host of other poets and peers.  My poems have been published in Smiths Knoll, Rialto, nth position, Obsessed with Pipework, the Affectionate Punch and The Poets Letter, and I have been a featured poet for The Tall Lighthouse.  It’s been great to see the work begin to find a home ‘out there’ but what I enjoy most is that moment when the thread of a new poem appears, to grasp it and see what emerges, often surprising even me.  My approach is to write fast once I’m on the trail of a poem, and capture its essence, then I spend ages refining and revisiting the work until it settles to the shape it wants to be.  I have a particular liking for the short poem, simply put but tightly focused. 

I thought I’d begin the month by offering up a selection of poems concerning childhood and invite readers to use that as a theme in their own work currently.  A few hints and tips to get the imagination going:  imagine you are five, or ten again; Where are you, at home, school?  What are the smells, noises and conversations going on around you?  Try to capture them. 

March Poet in Residence 2007: Helen Long

April Poet in Residence 2007: Alan McKean

May Poet in Residence 2007: Kerry-Fleur Schleifer

June Poet in Residence 2007: David Mclean

June Poet in Residence Tricia Peak  

July Poet in Residence Maggie Sullivan 

Visit the Page of March (2006) Poet in Residence Alan Buckley's Page

Poets in Residence @ 3rd London Poetry Festival 2007

Briony Dennis 

Inua Ellams 

Juli Jeana 

Tom Chivers  

Tricia Peak 

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Poet's Letter Second London Poetry Festival 2006: 14th August @ RADA

Baby food

They named her Honey.
She stuck a finger in her mouth
to get the taste,
grew up sweet and curvy.
The page three headline read
Everyone’s favourite flavour.

They all got a piece
but eating spoiled her figure.
half-starved, Honey came home,
sucked to the bone,
to the marrow.

Frame

A square cut fringe,
grey pleated skirt,
button up blouse,
a book, open, and a pen.

Now, smile for the camera.

A regular school photograph
but not quite –
she sits at right angles,
tight lipped,

her preferred hand hidden from view
we can’t see what she’s writing,
the close up
and long shot.

Noughts and crosses

I play the game on my flesh
with needle, knife, razor blade,
a broken bottle,
all the love poured out.

They stitch me up,
dress my arms in bandages
I can’t help but unwind,

relive the scarred grid of skin.
Three in a row, isn’t it, to win?

I slash, horizontally, vertically, diagonally.

This little piggy

You could put a child out of step
with life, naming toes for pigs:

stories at bedtime,
bacon next morning for breakfast.