Böcker av Kate Rose

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Colours of the Moon introduces an eclectic mix of the new voices and new writing that have emerged from the 2023 Artemesia Arts poetry competition: thirty-four poems exploring a variety of subjects in as many different styles.Competition judge Roger McGough said "The standard was particularly high, which made whittling down the final selection almost impossible. My congratulations to the winners and to all the poets who took part. It was a privilege to read your poems."Artemesia Arts was formed in 2022 for poets and writers to celebrate literature and poetry in the English language. The association holds an annual poetry festival in the medieval village of Treiognac in south-west France.

Kate Rose's poetry is influenced by rural south-west France, where she has lived for the past 10 years. She finds the countryside a place of contrasts: of loneliness, death and destruction but also of kindness and hope. The desperate protagonists in 'Golden Cow', who fail to provide comfort to the mother of the dead calf. The cabbage whites and ryegrass in 'Disappearance' are discordant with the despair of the tractor driver. Yet the neighbour in 'Below the mountains', despite hardships, provides hope in her gift of cheese; the walker in 'Voice' rekindles a precious friendship she thought long gone.Kate uses seascapes, cities, the countryside as the settings for her poems. Her descriptions use few words, yet enable the clear visualisation of the woods, seasons, light, the colour of the sea. It is in these places that she explores her key themes. In the ghostly 'Transient', shadows play tricks on the mind. Trauma is personified in 'Shadow' as it stalks the narrator. Kate explores estranged families in 'Bloods ties' and 'Being Fred', contrasting the cruelty of one boy with the new consciousness of the other, both poems filmic in their images. In 'When it's time to go', she uses a walk in the woods to explore loneliness and loss. In 'Fortified' she distinguishes between the damp of Leeds and an amber bay, to reveal the longing of a lonely traveller.Images and sensory details permeate her work. In 'Garlic and Roast Tomatoes', the football thumping against the ancient walls of Santa Croce in Florence provides a sense of normality and light to the lovers in the cold church. Yet in the darkest of places, we find hope. The snowberries revitalising a love affair in 'Propagating'. Her tender poem 'Study' showing us a young daughter's observations of her father's anxiety. The children's singing in 'Aftermath'.Reading Kate's poems forces readers to confront the very nature of their being. Memories, broken dreams, abandoned plans which they might choose to forget in their busy lives. Yet here she gently and persuasively helps her readers to reconnect the positives of their past to shape their futures.

This collection brings together a diverse and compelling array of voices from academics leading their fields around the world, to pioneer a new approach to literary analysis anchored in engagement with our changing world.