 He left to travel through Europe and North Africa and then return to university to do graduate work at Dalhousie and the University of New Brunswick.Since the late 1970s, he has lived on the west coast of Newfoundland, where he taught Literature and Creative Writing at Memorial University's Grenfell College.Maggs' poetry has appeared in the 1994 collection, "Timely Departures" (Breakwater) and in several reviews and anthologies, such as "Poetry Ireland Review", "Coastlines