Looking after the Poetry Archive 

10,492 poems 

in my keeping, 

 

None lost, overlooked or abandoned. 

 

Michael Donaghy said  

‘I’m in it for the discovery’. 

 

Me too, 

 

what it means to be a dot in a painting by Miro 

or keeping company with Dunn’s Terry Street Family, 

 

inspired to pen a few lines of my own. 

 

10,492 poems 

and more arriving. 

 

I follow on, 

this little addendum. 

from ‘By Way of Reply’ (Waterloo Press, 2025) © Maggie Sullivan 2025, used by permission of the author.

Born in Islington in north London, the premature death of her mother just before Sullivan’s 7th birthday necessitated her ...

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