Margaret Adkins
Creative Writing Portfolio
Mingled Space
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Available to purchase from: V. Press £7.50 inc. P & P. (UK)
Original cover illustration by Ruth Stacey | Colourised images by Paul Adkins for website purposes only |
Mingled Space: debut poetry pamphlet.
V. Press 2019
Review:
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"There's a strange charm to these poems, caught in the captivating throes of violence..."
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“In Mingled Space, Margaret Adkins weaves together striking imagery, evocative speech and a variety of form and techniques to create a wide-ranging and beguiling look at family, society and life. This is a vivid selection of poems that I can see, taste, feel – a worthy winner of the inaugural V. Press Prize for Poetry.”
Sarah Leavesley V.Press
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"Adkins gives attention to tender details others might miss."
Ruth Stacey
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"Here is music and witchcraft and sometimes things moving backwards...as Adkins' gaze shines a light into dark corners, noticing the small, the left behind and the lovely." Deborah Alma
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"These poems bristle with tenderness and beauty...domestic spaces inhabited by vivid characters leap out at you alive with a kind of gentle danger." Roz Goddard
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It Watches for My Return
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The lamp waits at my widow's window
all chubby. The light rounds where flowers
used to be vased for me by the man I loved.
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Where cards for Christmas, Easter,
my birthday used to be stood up for me
by my children — who now live lives
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with their children — who make them cards
with glitter and crayon and pasta. It
reminds me of plumpness; chewed flannels
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in bath-light; the passing of evenings.
Its waiting reminds me of knowing.
No other will ever know my knowing.
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