Smith, Maggie – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Sat, 09 Nov 2024 12:52:18 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Smith, Maggie – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Goldenrod https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/goldenrod/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=40717 A powerful collection of poems that look at parenthood, solitude, love and memory. Pulling objects from everyday life – a hallway mirror, a rock found in her son’s pocket, a field of goldenrods at the side of the road – Maggie Smith reveals the magic of the present moment.

The poems in Goldenrod celebrate the contours of daily life, explore and delight in the space between thought and experience, and remind us that we decide what is beautiful.

]]> You could make this place beautiful https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/you-could-make-this-place-beautiful/ Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=40720 In her long-awaited debut memoir, award-winning poet Maggie Smith explores in lyrical vignettes the end of her marriage and the beginning of a surprising new life. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself.

Above all, this memoir is an argument for possibility. Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new. Something beautiful.

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