Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, Cardiff Metropolitan University
Kate is Programme Director for the English Literature and Creative Writing MA programmes at Cardiff Metropolitan University. She writes fiction and poetry. Her latest poetry collection is The Way Out (Parthian, 2018). She is the Chair of Literature Wales and a Senior Fellow of the HE Academy.
'The language is muscular, the voice commanding' – Zoë Brigley
‘The way out of the title isn't an exit – more like being outbound on a journey. The destination of each poem, whether in another country or at home, in the past or in the body itself, is to be entirely, physically present. As one poem says, “The way out is here.”’ – Philip Gross
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