Degrees of Twilight

by Maggie Butt

The passage of time is tangible in Maggie Butt’s fifth collection. These poems use history, memory, work and travel as lenses to examine the inevitable pains and sharp pleasures at the heart of our transient lives.

'Maggie Butt’s poems focus, with clarity and humour, on the past’s strength, the present’s warmth and on all our futures: tender and apprehensive, as briefly glimpsed as twilight.'
- Alison Brackenbury

Genres: Poetry

64 pages, Paperback

First published July 5, 2015

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this after winning it from a Goodreads Giveaway. I enjoyed reading this collection of poems, however I feel like the unifying theme of the collection is lacking. When I say this, I think of Rose McLarney's collection, "The Always Broken Plates of Mountains." While particular collection has a solid theme of fences, barns, and livestock, it still fulfills the goal of being about a large variety of what life brings us. In "Degrees of Twilight" I didn't find this. The poems were unique and beautiful, but going from one to the next felt like I was changing the collection of work many times so while I'll enjoy reading the poems from time, I don't see this being a favorite poet of mine yet. Maybe with time, who knows? There's always room to grow for any writer.