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Kate Tough

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Kate Tough writes poetry and fiction rooted in realism, humour and sometimes difficult truths.

She creates astute observational detail in fiction, and explores painful and amusing moments that readers could recognise as themselves or their friends.

Her novel, Keep Walking, Rhona Beech, is the revised 2nd edition of Head for the Edge, Keep Walking. Her short fiction and poetry appear in journals such as, The Brooklyn Review, The Texas Review and The Found Poetry Review. Kate’s poetry pamphlet, tilt-shift, was Runner Up in the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, 2017.

Kate's been a literacy volunteer and creative writing tutor in many community settings.

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Average rating: 3.62 · 249 ratings · 77 reviews · 14 distinct works
Head for the Edge, Keep Wal...

3.53 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions
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Keep Walking, Rhona Beech

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Kissing Lying Down

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tilt-shift

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26 Treasures

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Crime After Crime

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Let's Pretend

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100 Stories for Haiti

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“The ramifications of the choice I made in July pitch up and bed-in for the night: I let him go at an age when no-one else will want me. I was reckless with my best years. I have nothing to show for them.”
Kate Tough, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking

“Takes a special kind to go
another kind to stay here

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Nowhere do such patriots so embrace
the leaving of the place”
Kate Tough, 26 Treasures

“I stroke a finger over my own top button, undo it, then let my hand drop with an exaggerated sigh. "It's not quite the same," I declare, "ripping my own clothes off.”
Kate Tough, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking

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“The ramifications of the choice I made in July pitch up and bed-in for the night: I let him go at an age when no-one else will want me. I was reckless with my best years. I have nothing to show for them.”
Kate Tough, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking

“I stroke a finger over my own top button, undo it, then let my hand drop with an exaggerated sigh. "It's not quite the same," I declare, "ripping my own clothes off.”
Kate Tough, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking

“Takes a special kind to go
another kind to stay here

........

Nowhere do such patriots so embrace
the leaving of the place”
Kate Tough, 26 Treasures

“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, The Illuminated Rumi

“I was ashamed of myself when I realised life was a costume party and I attended with my real face”
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