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tilt-shift
An innovative, amusing collection of found and visual process poetry.
“Kate Tough is a poet who looks down the wrong end of the telescope and finds poetry, insight and above all humour in all kinds of unexpected places.”
– Mandy Haggith
“To paraphrase ‘Amazing Grace,’ which Tough sticks her oar into effectively, these poems once were lost, but now are found. From canals, through sphincters, to a school girl’s sinister note, the breadth of source material used to mine these process poems — and which the poems subvert — is unexpected, funny and surprisingly political at times. With a keen eye for titles — such an important element in found poetry — Tough forces the reader to participate, rather than just read.”
– nick-e melville
“Kate Tough is a poet who looks down the wrong end of the telescope and finds poetry, insight and above all humour in all kinds of unexpected places.”
– Mandy Haggith
“To paraphrase ‘Amazing Grace,’ which Tough sticks her oar into effectively, these poems once were lost, but now are found. From canals, through sphincters, to a school girl’s sinister note, the breadth of source material used to mine these process poems — and which the poems subvert — is unexpected, funny and surprisingly political at times. With a keen eye for titles — such an important element in found poetry — Tough forces the reader to participate, rather than just read.”
– nick-e melville
32 pages, Paperback
First published October 6, 2016
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About the author
Kate Tough
14 books59 followersKate 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.
www.katetough.com
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.
www.katetough.com
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April 8, 2019
A poem from this pamphlet, ‘People Made Glasgow’, was selected as a Best Scottish Poem 2016 and this poetry pamphlet, tilt-shift, was Runner Up in the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, 2017, and mentioned in the Times Literary Supplement’s notable pamphlets, 2017.
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