Wes Magee

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Wes Magee is a poet and children's author who was born in Greenock, Scotland in July, 1939. One of his most well known works is the poem "Windows". He has published 6 collections of poetry for adults, and more than 90 books for children including poetry, fiction, plays, picture books, and anthologies. He now lives in the hamlet of , on the North Yorkshire Moors.[1]

Awards and accolades[]

  • Urban Gorilla, a collection for adults, won the New Poets Award in 1972.[2]
  • The Blackstaff Collection No Man's Land was a recommendation of the Poetry Book Society in 1978.[3]
  • The Very Best of Wes Magee, a selection of poems for children, won the Award of the Children's Poetry Bookshelf in 2002.[4]

Bibliography[]

  • Poetry Introduction 2 (Faber & Faber 1970)
  • Urban Gorilla (Leeds University Press 1971)
  • No Man's Land (Blackstaff Press 1978)
  • Oliver, the Daring Birdman (Longmans 1978)
  • A Dark Age (Blackstaff Press 1981)
  • Morning Break and Other Poems (Cambridge University Press 1989)
  • The Witch's Brew and Other Poems (Cambridge University Press 1989)
  • Flesh or Money (Littlewood/Arc 1990)
  • The Puffin Book of Christmas Poems - Editor (Puffin 1990)
  • The Snowgirl and the Snowboy (Ginn 1994)
  • The Dogs, the Cats, and the Mice (Ginn 1998)
  • The Very Best of Wes Magee (Macmillan 2001)
  • The Boneyard Rap and Other Poems (Hodder Wayland 2001)
  • The Phantom's Fang-Tastic Show (Oxford University Press 2001)
  • The Winterworld War (Barrington Stoke 2002)
  • Starfall (The Happy Dragons' Press 2005)

Forthcoming works[]

New collections of poems for adults, Joyriding! (Salt Publishing)[5] and A Thorgill Year (The Happy Dragons' Press)[6] have been announced.

Performance work[]

Wes Magee performs poetry shows in schools around the UK.The tours have also included Germany, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man and Guernsey and he was a visiting Professor at Rollins College, Florida and Kuwait.

Television[]

Poems for children have been featured in the Cbeebies series Poetry Pie.[7]

References[]

  1. ^ "Children's Discovery Centre - Wes Magee". Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. ^ "Urban Gorilla - National Library of Australia". Retrieved 30 September 2009.
  3. ^ "The Happy Dragons' Press". Retrieved 30 September 2009.
  4. ^ "Poetry Archive". Retrieved 30 September 2009.
  5. ^ "Salt Publishing on Facebook". Retrieved 30 September 2009.
  6. ^ "The Happy Dragons' Press". Retrieved 30 September 2009.
  7. ^ "Poetry Pie Official Site". Archived from the original on 1 October 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2009.

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