WRITER TALK: MAGGIE HARRIS

Maggie Harris is a poet, prose writer, and visual artist. Originally from Guyana, South America, she re-located to Kent after 10 years in Wales. She attended Kent University as a mature student, achieving a BA and MA, and started her career performing, running workshops and teaching creative writing. She has worked for Kent Arts & Libraries, represented Kent in Europe and was International Teaching Fellow at Southampton University.

Maggie has won prizes for poetry including most recently, the Poetry Wales Wales Poetry Award judged by Pascale Petit for her poem 'Slave Bangle, Wales'.

‘Harris’s voice is attuned to that of the Wild Woman archetype with poems that spring from the place of tension between the vibrant, instinctual nature, and the strictures imposed by society. From the fluid song rhythms of the opening section to the finely crafted later sonnet sequence, these poems ignite both the intellect…