Michael Magee's plays and poetry have been produced and published in the U.S., England, and Greece. His chapbooks include: Ireland's Eye, A Trip to Jerusalem, and the recently published Dementia: Love is a Blur and Vanishing Points (Beaux Arts Press, 2017). His play Shank's Mare was produced at Northwest Actor's Studio and later became a movie which won a best actor award at the Bare Bones, Script to Screen Film Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A Night in Reading Gaol With Oscar Wilde was produced here and in Derby, England. He was co-editor of 2020 Tacoma: In Images and Verse and is editor and publisher of Beaux Arts Press. Recent work has been published in Cirque and Journal of Wild Culture. He has lived in Seattle, San Francisco, London, Nottingham, England and now lives in Tacoma, Washington. Michael has read at Shakespeare and Company, Paris and on BBC Radio 1, as well as being a participant in the Jack Straw Writer's Program for radio in Seattle. He wrote several songs for the CD Vaudeville. He has been an Artist-in-the-Schools in Washington, Seattle Artist-in-Residence with the Seattle Arts Commission and Arts and Aging Team.

Other poems by Michael Magee in Verse Daily:
October 1, 2022:   "Out of Season" "Winter slows us down toward sleep..."
January 27, 2019:   "I Saw Walt Whitman in Wright Park" "proselytizing to the crows who were..."

Other poems on the web by Michael Magee:
Four poems
Nine poems
"Odysseus at the Mall"
Four poems

Michael Magee's Website.

About Shiny Things:

"Shiny Things is a marvelous compendium, a gallery of impressions and reflections inspired by art experience, travel, the natural world. The poems, some ekphrastic, many synesthetic, are lush, electric, vivid as gemstones. But there is a magical translucence to them: Magee doesn't only look at, but through the varied subjects and objects of this transparent life. In these chromatic, radiant poems, the poet's own 'glassy eye sees through itself / to the other side of wonderment.'"
—Sati Mookherjee

"Shiny Things is a poetry collection that invites us to come and discover. Whether the subject is a bridge or damselfly, a post office or a painting, Michael Magee's rich observations and wonderfully startling comparisons coax us into seeing anew, listening again, rethinking, and reimagining. These deeply layered poems yield new meaning with each reading, and they are worth opening again and again."
—Connie Hampton Connally