Margaret Clough is a retired Soil Chemist and Physical Science teacher. She started writing after retiring to Cape Town. She has written several short stories and children’s plays and has published four books of poetry, At Least the Duck Survived, and The Last to leave,( published by Modjadji Books) and Portrait in Thread and A Pious Pachyderm(self- published). Her poems have been published in Carapace, New Contrast, Stanzas, Aerodrome, Type/cast andthe anthology, Absolute Africa.
National Poetry Prize 2020 Winners Announcement and Reading will precede Margaret's reading