Road to Cleethorpes Pier

Margaret Royall's passion for poetry began in early childhood. Retirement brought the opportunity to pursue her writing seriously, giving voice to acute experiences of loss, grief and chronic illness. Her first collection of poems Fording The Stream (2017) was published under the pen name Jessica De Guyat. Writing under her own name, she is the author of a micro chapbook (2019). She has been shortlisted for poetry prizes with Crowvus and The Bangor Literary Journal and her poems have appeared in various journals, anthologies and webzines. Margaret is a member of several writing groups and performs regularly at Writers Live Southwell. She currently leads a Nottinghamshire women's poetry group.

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