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Kate Garrett

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Born

June 22, 1980

Website

http://www.kategarrettwrites.co.uk

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Spirituality

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Shirley Jackson, Daphne du Maurier, Jack Kerouac, Sharon Olds, Gary Sn ...more

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Kate is a writer, mama, and witch who plays tabor & bodhran, is obsessed with history & folklore, reads tarot, makes things, keeps fish, does whatever the cat says, and haunts 800 year old churches.

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	The Saint of Milk and Flames 4.93 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Body I Live In (Slim Volume #3) by Kate Garrett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Liz Hedgecock (Goodreads Author), Michele Brenton (Goodreads Author) 4.86 avg rating — 14 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	losing interest in the sound of petrichor it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Density of Salt 4.80 avg rating — 10 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deadly, Delicate it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Feed My Woodland Bones [A Changeling's Tale] 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2019 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	No Love Lost (Slim Volume #1) by Kate Garrett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Liz Hedgecock (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Michele Brenton (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.75 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bewitched (The Pankhearst Singles Club #6) 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You've never seen a doomsday like it it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Full Moon & Foxglove: An Anthology of Witches & Witchcraft by Kate Garrett (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Becca Goodin (Editor), Grant Tarbard (Goodreads Author) 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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'Splice the mainbrace' - a poem for Talk Like a Pirate Day

Hi People of Goodreads.

I've never used my blog on this site before, but it's Talk Like a Pirate Day, and I'm working on a book of pirate poems (very much for adults), Decked in Jackstays, which will be published by Pankhearst sometime in 2016.

So I decided to share around an unpublished poem from that collection, 'Splice the mainbrace' (which is 18th century - or thereabouts - nautical slang, calli Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 19, 2015 04:50 • Tags: historical-fiction, kate-garrett, pirates, poem, poetry, rum, talk-like-a-pirate-day, writing

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“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Haruki Murakami, Hear the Wind Sing

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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
― Albert Camus

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“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

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“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
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