Description
Three poets join together in examining a massively changing world and trying to define a future direction for all of us.
Elisabeth Kelly, Kate Young and Mick Yates each take on one of humanities brightest ideals and effortlessly capture it with a selection of their poems
Elisabeth Kelly
Elisabeth Kelly has recently returned to poetry writing. She lives on a hill farm in the Scottish Borders with her young family and too many animals. She has had poems accepted for publication by Dreich Magazine, Foxglove Journal and was Shortlisted in the Anthony Cronin International Poetry Award 2020. She loves the change of seasons and chocolate puddings.
Kate Young
Kate Young grew up in Norwich, Norfolk where she completed her teaching qualification. She moved to Chatham, Kent in 1978 to start a long teaching career and still enjoys the odd day working with KS1. She lives with her husband, her grown-up children having ‘flown the nest’! She has been passionate about poetry and literature since childhood. She generally writes free verse and loves responding to Art through Ekphrastic poems. If pushed, she would name TS Eliot as her favourite poet.
Her work has appeared in Ninemuses, Ekphrastic Review, Nitrogen House, Words for the Wild and Poetry on the Lake. She has poems due to be included in a Scottish Writers Centre chapbook and an anthology taken from the Places of Poetry project last year. She is a member of her local Poetry Society Stanza and the Poetry Society of the Open University.
Find her on Twitter @Kateyoung12poet.
Mick Yates
Mick Yates lives in the far north of England. He has worked extensively as a playwright and has had more than thirty plays produced at theatres across the country. He has received many awards, including an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First. He has also written for television, most notably for the BBC series Doctors. His debut poetry collection artefacts won the 2014 Geoff Stevens Memorial Poetry Prize and it was published by Indigo Dreams Publishing in 2015. His second collection kaleidoscope was published by them in 2017. A new chapbook, the art of conversation, was published by the New York based Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2018.
Another collection the shapes of passion was also published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2018 to be followed by random thoughts from the north which was published by them in 2019. His most recent collection the blue hour was published by The Hedgehog Poetry Press in 2019. He was longlisted in 2017, 2018 and 2019 for Best Poetry Pamphlet in the prestigious Saboteur Awards, and was also a Pushcart Prize nominee in 2018. His latest pamphlet poems from egypt was published by Barley Cottage Publications in February 2020 to be followed by forever in eden and a river runs through here in April 2020.
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