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Maggie Butt

Maggie Brookes-Butt is a British poet and novelist.

Maggie Brookes-Butt, poet and novelist

Background

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Maggie [1] is an ex-journalist and BBC TV producer turned poet and novelist.[2] Her six poetry collections are published under the name Maggie Butt. Her latest poetry collection, everlove,[3] was published in April 2021 by The London Magazine.[4] Her first historical novel, The Prisoner's Wife was published in 2020 [5] under her maiden name Maggie Brookes.[6] It was published by imprints of Penguin Random House in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, USA and Canada [7] and also in the Czech Republic,[8] Poland,[9] Portugal, Mexico [10] and the Netherlands.[11] Her second historical novel Acts of Love and War,[12] was published internationally in 2022.

She has been a Royal Literary Fund fellow[13] and Associate Professor at Middlesex University,[14] where she taught creative writing for 30 years.[15] Her poetry has been published in international magazines [16] and anthologies and been turned into choreography and a mobile phone app as well as set to music. She has judged many poetry competitions.[17][18]

After completing an English degree, Maggie (then Brookes) became a newspaper reporter at the Kingsbridge Gazette [1], and Hendon Times moving to BBC TV as a documentary writer, producer and director.[19][20][21] She later returned to her first love of poetry and fiction, completing a PhD in creative writing[22] from Cardiff University.

Maggie Butt's first poetry pamphlet, Quintana Roo, was published by Acumen Publications[23] in 2003. Her first full collection of poetry, Lipstick, was published in March 2007 by Greenwich Exchange;[24] a launch event was held at Keats House in Hampstead, North London. Her edited collection of essays, Story - The Heart of the Matter, was also published by Greenwich Exchange in October 2007.[25] An e-book and MP3, "I Am The Sphinx", were published by Snakeskin online poetry journal in 2009.[26] Her collection of short poems, "petite", was published by Hearing Eye in 2010, and turned into a dance piece "Ashes" by choreographer Dr Lesley Main.[2]

Ally Pally Prison Camp, published in June 2011 by Oversteps Books,[27] charts the use of Alexandra Palace in North London as a 'concentration camp' for civilian enemy aliens during the First World War. It tells the story of the internees through black and white photographs, the paintings of internee George Kenner, extracts from memoirs and letters, and Maggie Butt's own poems.[28] The poems and stories from Ally Pally Prison Camp have been recorded and brought alive for visitors to Alexandra Palace in a locative mobile phone app called Time Stood Still produced by Dr Helen Bendon.[3]

Sancti Clandestini - Undercover Saints, published November 2012 by Ward-Wood Publications,[29] is a fully illustrated poetry collection, which proposes some alternative, imaginary saints, including the Patron Saints of liars, looters, rank outsiders, compulsive hoarders, old dogs and infidel girls. These undercover Patron Saints were illustrated by the staff and students of Middlesex University's BA Hons Illustration course, from famous and established artists to emerging talents.'If the proof of a poem is in the richness of response it provokes, the illustrations here are that response made visible - a testimony to the subtle layers in this tender but incisive poetry.' Philip Gross

Degrees of Twilight [30] was published by The London Magazine in July 2015. 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.

Dr Maggie Butt was Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education (NAWE) from 2007-2012, and founding Principal Editor of the peer reviewed journal Writing in Practice.[31]

Maggie lives in North London. She is married with two grown-up daughters.

Books

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  • Quintana Roo, Acumen Publications 2003
  • Lipstick, Greenwich Exchange 2007
  • Story - The Heart of the Matter, Greenwich Exchange 2007
  • Petite, Hearing Eye 2010
  • Ally Pally Prison Camp, Oversteps Books 2011[28]
  • Sancti Clandestini - Undercover Saints’’, Ward-Wood 2012
  • Degrees of Twilight, The London Magazine, 2015
  • The Prisoner's Wife, Penguin Random House 2020
  • everlove, The London Magazine, 2021
  • Acts of Love and War, Penguin Random House 2022

References

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  1. ^ "Maggie Butt". www.amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. ^ Leicester, Creative Writing At (17 October 2020). "Creative Writing at Leicester: Maggie Brookes, "The Prisoner's Wife"". Creative Writing at Leicester. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. ^ "everlove by Maggie Butt". The London Magazine. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  4. ^ "Degrees of Twilight by Maggie Butt". thelondonmagazine.org. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  5. ^ Brookes, Maggie. "The Prisoner's Wife". www.penguin.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  6. ^ "Maggie Brookes | United Agents". www.unitedagents.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  7. ^ "The Prisoner's Wife by Maggie Brookes". Penguin Random House Canada. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  8. ^ "Maggie Brookes". www.albatrosmedia.cz (in Czech). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  9. ^ "» Żona więźnia". www.wydawnictwokobiece.pl. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  10. ^ La esposa del prisionero - Maggie Brookes | PlanetadeLibros (in European Spanish).
  11. ^ "De verwisseling, Maggie Brookes | 9789024589364 | Boeken | bol.com". www.bol.com (in Dutch). Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  12. ^ Brookes, Maggie (3 August 2023). Acts of Love and War.
  13. ^ "Maggie Butt – Novelist, Poet". rlf.org.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  14. ^ "Dr Maggie Butt - Middlesex University Research Repository". eprints.mdx.ac.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  15. ^ Butt, Maggie (31 October 2013). "One I made earlier: on the PhD by publication". TEXT. 17 (Special 22): 1–14. doi:10.52086/001c.28309.
  16. ^ "Volume 19, no. 1". The Manhattan Review. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  17. ^ harrietspringbett (18 July 2019). "Segora Celebrates with Maggie Butt". Harriet Springbett's playground. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  18. ^ "Val Ormrod wins Ware Poets Poetry Competition – The Poetry Society". poetrysociety.org.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  19. ^ "Search - BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  20. ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  21. ^ "BBC Programme Index". genome.ch.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  22. ^ "Maggie Butt (née Brookes) (BA 1977, PhD 2002)". blogs.cardiff.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 August 2019.
  23. ^ "Acumen". Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  24. ^ "Greenwich Exchange". Greenwich Exchange. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  25. ^ "Story: The Heart of the Matter". Greenwich Exchange. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  26. ^ "snake128.htm". www.snakeskinpoetry.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  27. ^ "Oversteps Books » Ally Pally Prison Camp". Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  28. ^ a b "Ally Pally Prison Camp". www.overstepsbooks.com. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
  29. ^ "Sancti Clandestini: Undercover Saints". www.wardwoodpublishing.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  30. ^ "The Degrees of Twilight by Maggie Butt". The London Magazine. 14 July 2015. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  31. ^ "Writing in Practice - Vol 1 :: National Association of Writers in Education ::". www.nawe.co.uk. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
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  1. ^ "MAGGIE BROOKES". MAGGIE BROOKES. Retrieved 4 October 2024.
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