Maggie Sawkins lives in an old Station Master’s House on the Isle of Wight. Her poetry collections include The Zig Zag Woman, Charcot’s Pet, The House Where Courage Lives and Zones of Avoidance for which she won a Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.

 

She facilitates creative writing projects in community settings, working with people from all walks of life including prisoners, those affected by substance misuse and the refugee and asylum seeker community in Portsmouth.  Maggie hosted an episode of the BBC Radio 4 programme Tongue and Talk, exploring Portsmouth Dialect through Poetry. She is currently on a mini tour with ‘Flyweight’, her live literature production directed by Mark Hewitt with video sequences by Matt Parsons.

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Maggie will be speaking as part of our WRITE ON WIGHT programme, visit this link to see full programme.