Maggie Harris is a Guyana-born poet and prose writer who has written six collections of poetry, a memoir, Kiskadee Girl, and two short story collections, Canterbury Tales on a Cockcrow Morning, and In Margate by Lunchtime (upcoming). Her latest collection of poetry is Sixty Years of Loving. She was recently selected as Regional Winner (Caribbean) for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014. Other awards include The Guyana Prize for Literature, New Writing South, Arts Council New Writing and Kingston University Life Writing.
She has performed her work in the UK, Europe and the Caribbean, works with both adults and children, and was International Teaching Fellow at Southampton University. Her use of language reflect her passion for connectedness through music and rhythm.
Reviews
"I was enthralled by your economy and precise use of language. I was also deeply moved by the tender openness of your particular view of the world."
Brian Reid, Music Manager & Writer, at Blue Gate Poets, Swindon.
" I have seen Maggie Harris read her poetry at several venues, most recently at the Dinefwr Literature Festival in Wales. Her readings are always engaging. The musical quality of her voice and the rhythm of her poetry work together beautifully to create a memorable performance." Jackie Biggs, Writer & Editor
"Maggie's poems dart like hummingbirds: vivid, precise, lyrical, playful and singing with a chorus of voices." Maggie Butt, 'After a Visit to a Botanical garden'
"This collection made me laugh out loud, weep, and return to particular poems for the sheer pleasure of savouring their brilliance." Catherine Smith, 'Sixty Years of Loving'
BIO.
Career Highlights
International Teaching Fellowship, Southampton University 2008-9
Winning the Guyana Prize for Literature for my first collection LIMBOLANDS in 2000
Winning a Leverhulme scholarship to research performance poetry in Barbados in 1999
Creating and organising the Inscribing Literature festival in East Kent 2002-4
Kent's Outstanding Adult Learner in 1994
Winning writing awards from Meridian TV, & Arts Councils & the TS Eliot from Kent University
Representing Kent in Europe as part of MUSE
BA & MA as a mature student at Kent University
Projects
Year of the Artist - Poetry in Dance Studios
Lyric Writing in the community with Glyndebourne Opera
Reader Development for Kent Libraries
Writing, Art & Music collaborations in schools
Kent’s Big Read - poetry with parents & children
Sissinghurst Castle Gardens - the Paper Gardener
Broadstairs Folk Week Poet in residence
* Essex Intercultural project
Books
Canterbury Tales on a Cockcrow Morning - Cultured Llama publishing house
Kiskadee Girl Kingston University
Sixty Poems for Haiti Cane Arrow Press
After a Visit to a Botanical Garden
Cane Arrow Press
Limbolands - Mango Print
Sixty Poems for Haiti Cane Arrow Press
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