Maggie Butt
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Background
After completing an English degree, Maggie Butt became a newspaper reporter, moving to BBC TV as a documentary writer, producer and director. She later turned to poetry, completing a PhDPHD
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in creative writing from Cardiff University
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.
Maggie Butt's first pamphlet Quintana Roo was published by Acumen
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Publications in 2003. Her first full collection of poetry, Lipstick, was published in March 2007 by Greenwich Exchange; a launch event was held at Keats House in Hampstead
Hampstead
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, North London. Her edited collection of essays Story - The Heart of the Matter was also published by Greenwich Exchange in October 2007. An e-book and MP3 "I Am The Sphinx" were published by Snakeskin online poetry journal in 2009. Her collection of short poems "petite" was published by Hearing Eye in 2010.
Ally Pally Prison Camp, published June 2011 by Oversteps Books, charts the use of Alexandra Palace
Alexandra Palace
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in North London
North London
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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
George Kenner
George Kenner was a German artist. He made 110 paintings and drawings during the First World War while interned as a German civilian prisoner of war in Great Britain and the Isle of Man.-Birth and background:...
, extracts from memoirs and letters, and Maggie Butt's own poems.
Maggie Butt is Associate Dean for Academic Development in the School of Arts and Education at Middlesex University
Middlesex University
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, London
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. She is also Chair of the National Association of Writers in Education - (NAWE). She is a University Teaching Fellow and University Orator.
Maggie Butt lives in North London. She is married with two daughters.
Books
- 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