Coronations

by Catherine Kyle

This micro-chapbook is a part of the 2019 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series.

Genres: Poetry

19 pages, Digital Chapbook

First published July 1, 2019

About the author

Catherine Broadwall (formerly Catherine Kyle) is the author of Water Spell (Cornerstone Press, 2025), Fulgurite (Cornerstone Press, 2023), Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and other collections. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She was the winner of the 2023 Paula Svonkin Creative Arts Award and the 2020 COG Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the poetry categories of the 2021 Mississippi Review Prize and 2021 Pinch Literary Awards. She is an assistant professor at DigiPen Institute of Technology, where she teaches creative writing and literature.

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Reviews

[Joe Davidson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a beautiful collection of poems, and I’m sure I’ll be going back to them regularly!

[Gab · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5
(me problem: apparently i don't know that many fairy tales and had to google a few of these to understand)

my favourites were Water Crush and The Gardener
as well as this quote from Gerda's Rebuke

To the waves that we listened to late at night, as you hushed shushing whispering into my hair. I asked the lapis ocean if you were dead and placed my new heels, red stilettos caked with sand, into the slop of the foam and the salt.

[Shilo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Magical & haunting.

[Mariel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had the pleasure of reading Catherine's poems for the Winter Tangerine fairytale issue, where we published Water Crush! I love her re-imaginings of these stories, blood and crystal and all.