{{Short description|British writer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2019}} {{Use British English|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox writer | name = Sarah Maguire | image = Sarah_Maguire.jpg | birth_date = 26 March 1957 | death_date = 2 November 2017 | birth_place = London | occupation = Poet, Translator | nationality = British }}

'''Sarah Maguire''' (26 March 1957 &ndash; 2 November 2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=Sarah Maguire obituary |date=2017-11-14 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230508000227/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/14/sarah-maguire-obituary |archive-date=2023-05-08 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/14/sarah-maguire-obituary}}</ref> was a British poet, translator and broadcaster.

==Life== Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ''The Florist's at Midnight'' (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens, and she edited the anthology ''Flora Poetica: the Chatto Book of Botanical Verse'' (2001). She was also Poet in Residence at Chelsea Physic Garden, and edited ''A Green Thought in a Green Shade'', essays by poets who have worked in a garden environment, published at the conclusion of this residency.<ref>[http://archive.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/archives/places/maguire/ "Sarah Maguire | Cross-Fertilisation: Poet in Residence at the Chelsea Physic Gardens"], The Poetry Society.</ref>

Maguire was the first writer to be sent to Palestine (1996) and Yemen (1998) by the British Council. As a result of these visits she developed a strong interest in Arabic literature; she translated the Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan and the Sudanese poet, Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi (2008). With Yama Yari, Maguire co-translated the Afghan poet Partaw Naderi (2008); their translation of ''A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear'' by the leading Afghan novelist, Atiq Rahimi (Chatto & Windus, 2006) was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/21/poetry.featuresreviews1| title=All this time on my knees — The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire review| author=Robert Potts | work=The Guardian |date=21 July 2007| location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/august2007/maguire.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071108035500/http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/august2007/maguire.html| archive-date=2007-11-08| title=The Pomegranates of Kandahar by Sarah Maguire review| author=Fran Brearton | work=Tower Poetry}}</ref>

She was the only living English-language poet with a book in print in Arabic - her collection of selected poems, ''Haleeb Muraq'' (Dar-Al Mada, 2003), was translated by the leading Iraqi poet Saadi Yousef. Maguire was the founder and director of the Poetry Translation Centre, which opened in 2004.<ref>[http://www.poetrytranslation.org/translators/sarah-maguire "Translators | Sarah Maguire"], Poetry Translation Centre.</ref>

The Sarah Maguire Prize for Poetry in Translation was launched by the Poetry Translation Centre on 12 September 2019 to recognise and encourage quality translation of poetry into English.<ref>Introducing the Sarah Maguire Prize, Poetrytranslation.org, 22 Sept 2019. https://www.poetrytranslation.org/articles/introducing-the-sarah-maguire-prize</ref>

==Awards== * 2008: Cholmondeley Award * 2001-03; Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow at School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London

==Works== * {{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/aug/08/forwardprizeforpoetry2005.forwardprizeforpoetry1| title=Passages | work=The Guardian| date=8 August 2005 | location=London}}

===Poetry Books=== * {{cite book| title=Spilt Milk| publisher=Secker & Warburg| year=1991| isbn=978-0-9511023-3-6 }} * {{cite book| title=The Invisible Mender | publisher=Cape Poetry| year=1997 }} * {{cite book| title=The Florist's at Midnight | publisher=Jonathan Cape| year=2001| isbn=978-0-224-06213-8 }} * {{cite book| title=The Pomegranates of Kandahar| publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=2007| isbn=978-0-7011-8131-4 }} * {{cite book| title=Almost the Equinox: Selected Poems| publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=2015|isbn=978-0-7011-8855-9}}

===Edited=== * {{cite book| title=A Green Thought in a Green Shade: Poetry in the Garden| publisher=Poetry Society| year=2000 | isbn=978-1-900771-26-9 }} * {{cite book| title=Flora Poetica: The Chatto Book of Botanical Verse | publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=2001| isbn=978-0-7011-6922-0 }}

===Translations=== * {{cite book| title=Haleeb Muraq (Selected Poems)| others=Saadi Yousef (trans.)| publisher=Al-Mada House | place=Syria| year=2003 }} * {{cite book| title=A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear| author=Atiq Rahimi |others=Yama Yari (trans.)| publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=2006| isbn=978-0-7011-7673-0 }} * {{cite book| title=Poems| author=Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi| others=Sabry Hafez (trans.)| publisher=Enitharmon/Poetry Translation Centre| year=2008 }} * {{cite book| title=Poems| author=Partaw Naderi |others=Yama Yari (trans.)| publisher=Enitharmon/Poetry Translation Centre| year=2008 }}

===Anthologies=== * {{cite book| title=New Chatto Poets: Number Two |author=Susanne Ehrhardt |author2=Paul May |author3=Lucy Anne Watt |author4=Robert Crawford |author5=Sarah Maguire |author6=Mark Ford | publisher=Chatto & Windus| year=1989| isbn=978-0-7011-3393-1 }}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=auth02d11k170512627509 "Sarah Maguire"], ''The British Council'' * James Byrne, [http://www.wolfmagazine.co.uk/6_interview_sm.php "Interview"], ''Wolf Magazine''

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