Next Buzzwords Sunday, May 12th
7pm - workshop led by Kate North
8pm - open mic and guest readings
Guest Poet: Kate North
Upstairs at The Exmouth Arms, Bath Road, Cheltenham
Waged £5, unwaged £3
Kate
North writes poetry and fiction and is from Cardiff. She has previously published a novel, Eva Shell (2008), described as “forensic in its dissection of…emotional landscapes
and frequently very funny with it...” Wales Arts Review, (2015).
Her first poetry collection was Bistro
(2012), described as “skilful” and
“particularly poignant,” in New Welsh
Review, (2012), as “sparkling with energy and vitality,” in Orbis: Quarterly International Literary
Journal, (2012) and as containing “beautifully compact insights and
unexpected images,” in Cha: Asian
Literary Journal, (2012).
Kate is a Reader in Creative Writing and runs the
MA English Literature and Creative Programmes at Cardiff Metropolitan
University. She is a regular guest
critic on the BBC Radio Wales’s Review Show and she is Chair of Literature
Wales.
She has just published a short story collection
called Punch. Her 2018 poetry collection,
The Way Out, contains poems that
relate the personal, the political, the everyday and the absurd. Zoë Brigley has
described the writing as ‘muscular’ and ‘commanding’ and Philip Gross says that
reading it is ‘like being outbound on a journey’.
