Prac Crit

Kate Kilalea

Originally from South Africa, Kate Kilalea lives in London. Her first book, One Eye’d Leigh (Carcanet, 2009), was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award.

Poem to Poem (2) – conversation with Kate Kilalea

This is the second part of Kate and Matthew’s conversation: you can read the first part here. We invited Matthew Gregory and Kate Kilalea to pair up for the first in our new series of conversations between poets, Poem to Poem.  These two poets have been working for some time on longer sequences – Ka...

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Poem to Poem (1) – conversation with Matthew Gregory

This is the first part of Kate and Matthew’s conversation: you can read the second part here. We invited Matthew Gregory and Kate Kilalea to pair up for the first in our new series of conversations between poets, Poem to Poem.  These two poets have been working for some time on longer sequences – Ka...

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from House for the Study of Water by Kate Kilalea

1. Whatever you love most dearly / / / My dearest brother, last night / I saw water playing in the pond / where the women were swimming. / I was stationed in the House for / the Study of Water amid parapets / and ruby red columns under the / open sky. I was with a man. His / name was Cur...

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