Speak Up! On writing, failing better, and taking up space
Kate PottsA newsletter about creative writing and everyday life
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Running Back
When, in my early thirties, I first started running, I thought it was horribly masochistic drudgery. But, as I’d been urged to, I kept trying in short, regular bursts. Gradually another experience began to emerge. My body started to feel st...
The Long Game
When I was a teenager, I announced that I wanted to be a writer. ‘Journalist’, my dad said, thinking practically. I spent two long weeks of work experience at my local newspaper, painstakingly typing up news reports about school fetes and t...
Ways to Work With Me This Autumn
The end of summer is fast approaching! If you’d like to dedicate more time and attention to your poetry or life writing this autumn, here are some ways to work with me.
Image: Leonie Clough, Unsplash
Poetry Studio
This September I’m...
Cut, Rework, Reveal: Collage and Erasure in Poetry
I think I was first introduced to the cut-up technique — via Dada — by a friend and fellow student on my PGCE course at the Institute of Education in London in the early 2000s. The course was heavy on practical advice and contemporary analy...
Gathering In: reading your poems as a body of work
It’s not quite harvest time yet, but summer is a time when, for many of us, day job work slows down or pauses, or we travel beyond our usual everyday environment, and we might have a little more time and brain space to contemplate our creat...
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Creative writing mentor, editor and lecturer, and award-winning poet. Published by Bloodaxe Books. Solo mum based in Stroud, Gloucestershire.
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