Wish: New and Selected Poems by Maggie Brookes-Butt

This New and Selected draws on six previous poetry collections. Everlove (2021) was hailed as, 'a profound act of poetic, elegiac empathy, a love song to us all and to the earth we love, share and ravage. A mature, devastating and ultimately redemptive work, engaging with the best and worst of the human condition in poems both personal and universal. Formally versatile, musical, always precise. ' Jacqueline Saphra. The new poems build on Maggie's previous concerns to examine the joys and fears of a grandmother in this troubled, vulnerable and precious world.