Magi Gibson is the first Makar for the
City of Stirling in almost five hundred years. She has held
one Royal Literary Fund and three Scottish Arts Council
Creative Writing Fellowships.
She won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 Writing Prize and
has had four collections of poetry published.
Her poetry appears in major anthologies including Scottish
Love Poems and Modern Scottish Women Poets (both
Canongate), and The Twentieth Century Book of Scottish
Poetry (Edinburgh University Press).
She was a prize-winner in the prestigious Asham Short Story
Competition.
Magi's novels for older children, the Seriously Sassy
Series, will be published by
Puffin in April 2009, August 2009 and February 2010. The
first in the series is a Waterstone's Book of the Month
choice for April.
Magi lives in Glasgow with writer and comedian, Ian
Macpherson.
POETRY PUBLICATIONS:
Graffiti in Red Lipstick, Wild Women of a Certain Age,
Kicking Back, Strange Fish, Premier
Results
www.magigibson.co.uk
www.maggigibson.com
www.seriouslysassy.co.uk
the poem he wrote last night
This is a poem I wrote last night
the
guy with the mike announces
I
just had this thought,
he explains,
this inspiration
and I knew I had to write it down
I
want to dedicate it to all you lovely
people,
he smiles
It's
not actually got a title yet
so
I'll just call it 'The Poem I Wrote Last Night'
At last he smoothes the papers in his hand
starts to read, and we sit, stunned,
as the pages turn
one by one by one
and he reads
on and on and on and on…
Until we all wish, secretly,
for a small emergency - like a waste bin fire
or a bomb in the ladies
so we must evacuate the building immediately
while he reads on and on
and though we're poetry-lovin tree-huggin pacifist vegans
we find ourselves fantasising
about dragging him out into the street
tying him to a lamppost
ramming the mike down his throat
which leads us to wonder
if Scots Law allows a plea of temporary insanity
brought on by prolonged psychological poetical torture
while the poem he wrote last night
continues
and continues
till at last he finishes – and we're so relieved
we won't be facing murder charges after all
we give him what he wanted all along
APPLAUSE
And he says
thank you, what a lovely audience, you're so kind -
PAUSE
so
here's another poem I wrote last night...