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.
This anthology is not afraid to go into dark corners and shine a light. The poetry is at times edgy and unnerving but it is punchy and brave, daring you to look back and revisit difficult past relationships. Mixed in with the fierlessness are mysterious, mythological, and ethereal poems. The themes are real and relatable.
It is difficult to pick favourites because there are so many to choose from. I keep revisiting, Beside the Irish Sea, and, She was not my manic pixie dream girl.