The Zig Zag Woman

A first full collection of poetry by Maggie Sawkins.

‘Maggie Sawkins draws brilliantly on extended metaphor and the surreal to explore painful relationships, mental illness and problematic situations. She writes both from personal experience and beyond it. Her inventive and highly individual voice is always authentic. The taut writing carries emotional weight and sends that shiver up my spine which tells me I am reading real poetry. This is a very exciting first collection.’ Myra Schneider

'I loved The Zig Zag Woman. Maggie Sawkins has a distinctive and beguiling voice. Her poems are tautly written, full of wonderful and strange images and heart-breakingly moving.' Vicki Feaver

'The naturalness of Maggie Sawkins' voice is intensified in these poems by a tactile sense that form and line have been crafted and re-crafted all the way to the page. As a result, it is as though a friendship with the reader had already been established in which the remembered and the imagined can be taken equally on trust.' Graham Fawcett

ISBN: 978-1-906120-08-5; £8.99. TO ORDER THIS BOOK, CLICK HERE