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Cliff Notes is now available to preorder!

Kate
December 7, 2021December 8, 2021 No Comments

Pre order my debut collection here! I cannot BELIEVE that today is the day. It’s actually here. My book is now available for pre-order on my shop, Verve Poetry Press’ website, Waterstones, Amazon, WH Smith… AAAAAAHH!! So YES I can finally say, pre order my debut collection Cliff Notes today! https://poetryod.bigcartel.com/ or via my link […]

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Page Poetry Sharing

Peony Bruised

Kate
April 24, 2021April 24, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to blood.

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Page Poetry Sharing

Vinegar

Kate
April 24, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to self esteem issues, binge-eating disorder, weight related thoughts and shame.

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Sharing Spoken Word

The Austere Beauty of Trying Not To Die

Kate
April 2, 2021April 24, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to suicidality, governmental abuse of disabled people in the UK, and mental health issues.

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Page Poetry

Snow day

Kate
February 19, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to lockdown, isolation and bad language.

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Spoken Word

Live

Kate
February 20, 2018February 19, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to grief, loss, bereavement, alcohol, and cigarettes.  

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Spoken Word

Sometimes

Kate
February 20, 2018February 19, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to sexual assault, C-PTSD, trauma, panic attacks and sexual abuse of a minor.

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Spoken Word

Sunburnt

Kate
February 20, 2018February 19, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to suicidal ideation, suicidality, suicide and mental health stigma.

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Spoken Word

Angry Feminist Poem

Kate
February 20, 2018February 19, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to alcohol, alcohol abuse, men’s mental health, mental health, grief, loss, bereavement, suicide, suicidality and mental health.

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Spoken Word

Something Special

Kate
February 20, 2018February 19, 2021 No Comments

Content Warnings: Before you click, you might need to know that this page contains references to offensive language, ableism, ableist language, loss, grief and bereavement.

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Kathryn O’Driscoll is a spoken word poet, writer and activist from Bath, England. She is a U.K. slam champion and a World Slam Finalist (2021). She talks openly about disabilities, mental health, LGBTQIA+ issues and joys and gender politics in her wide range of poems.

She was longlisted for the Outspoken Prize for Performance Poetry, and the Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Artist in 2022. In 2021 she was one of the featured poets on the (BAFTA winning) Sky Arts spoken word TV show Life and Rhymes.

She is the founder and creator of CandleLit Sessions and the Sword Forge Collective, a poetry reader for Full House Literary Magazine, and Co-Artistic Director of Spoken Word at PBH’s Free Fringe.

Her debut collection ‘Cliff Notes’ was released by Verve Poetry Press in February.

Read Some Of My Work

  • Cliff Notes is now available to preorder!
  • Peony Bruised
  • Vinegar
  • The Austere Beauty of Trying Not To Die
  • Snow day

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