Navigation
Published on 1. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
978-1-78864-021-3 (ISBN)
Description
Addressing experiences of displacement and connection to both place and to people, the poems in Navigation traverse landscape and memory, mingling the two. From the sediments of natural structures to the erosion of memory, Kate Carruthers Thomas uses beautifully controlled metaphor to explore the tensions between familiarity and strangeness, whether in how we perceive the world or is the changing dynamics relationships. Poised, honed and sharply observed, with a feeling for what goes on beneath the surface of things, Navigation is an outstanding debut collection.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Blaenau Ffestiniog
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78864-021-3 (9781788640213)
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Kate Carruthers Thomas was born in North Wales within spitting distance of the sea and Snowdonia. She grew up in Gloucestershire, close to the high limestone grasslands of Minchinhampton Common. She now lives in Sheffield, on the edge of the Peak District. Her poetry draws on our relationships with physical and emotional landscapes, on the interplay of space, place and emotion. This interest extends into her work as an academic; Kate specialises in interdisciplinary enquiry into the research fields of higher education and gender with a particular focus on space and mobility. The poetic and academic aspects of her life have collided a number of times: Kate has been invited to open several academic conferences with one of her poems, while 'Poisson', a commissioned poem about the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, appears on the British Sociological Association website. Kate's poems have won awards in the Kent and Sussex Poetry Society Open and East Riding Poetry competitions and been shortlisted in the Cinnamon Press Debut Collection Competition. She is a graduate of the Cinnamon Press Mentoring Scheme and her poems have been published in Envoi and the Cinnamon anthologies May Day and Trio. Navigation is her first solo collection.