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Kate Garrett

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June 22, 1980

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Poetry, Nonfiction, Spirituality

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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
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	Bewitched (The Pankhearst Singles Club #6) 4.67 avg rating — 9 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
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	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
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	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.”
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“The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.”
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