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Wes Magee


Role
  
Poet

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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 Thorgill, on the North Yorkshire Moors.

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Awards and accolades

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

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

    Performance work

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    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

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

    References

    Wes Magee Wikipedia