Sarah Maguire Explained

Sarah Maguire
Birth Date:26 March 1957
Death Date:2 November 2017
Birth Place:London
Occupation:Poet, Translator
Nationality:British

Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957  - 2 November 2017)[1] was a British poet, translator and broadcaster.

Life

Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems The Florist's at Midnight (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens, and she edited the anthology Flora Poetica: the Chatto Book of Botanical Verse (2001). She was also Poet in Residence at Chelsea Physic Garden, and edited A Green Thought in a Green Shade, essays by poets who have worked in a garden environment, published at the conclusion of this residency.[2]

Maguire was the first writer to be sent to Palestine (1996) and Yemen (1998) by the British Council. As a result of these visits she developed a strong interest in Arabic literature; she translated the Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan and the Sudanese poet, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (2008). With Yama Yari, Maguire co-translated the Afghan poet Partaw Naderi (2008); their translation of A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear by the leading Afghan novelist, Atiq Rahimi (Chatto & Windus, 2006) was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007.[3] [4]

She was the only living English-language poet with a book in print in Arabic - her collection of selected poems, Haleeb Muraq (Dar-Al Mada, 2003), was translated by the leading Iraqi poet Saadi Yousef. Maguire was the founder and director of the Poetry Translation Centre, which opened in 2004.[5]

The Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation was launched by the Poetry Translation Centre on 12 September 2019 to recognise and encourage quality translation of poetry into English.[6]

Awards

Works

Poetry Books

& not mentioned, Almost the Equinox - selected poems 2015 published by chatto & windus

Edited

Translations

Anthologies

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarah Maguire obituary . 2017-11-14 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20230508000227/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/14/sarah-maguire-obituary . 2023-05-08 . live .
  2. http://archive.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/archives/places/maguire/ "Sarah Maguire | Cross-Fertilisation: Poet in Residence at the Chelsea Physic Gardens"
  3. News: All this time on my knees — The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire review. Robert Potts . The Guardian . 21 July 2007. London.
  4. Web site: The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire review. https://web.archive.org/web/20071108035500/http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/august2007/maguire.html. 2007-11-08. Fran Brearton . Tower Poetry.
  5. http://www.poetrytranslation.org/translators/sarah-maguire "Translators | Sarah Maguire"
  6. Introducing the Sarah Maguire Prize, Poetrytranslation.org, 22 Sept 2019. https://www.poetrytranslation.org/articles/introducing-the-sarah-maguire-prize

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