Review
Kathryn Gray's poetry is delightfully accessible, intelligent, full of deftly rendered detail and attractive cadences. - Douglas Dunn an original and thoroughly twenty-first century debut. - Maurice Riordan Crackles with good ideas, reality and youth - qualities that rarely arrive at the same time - a winner. - Peter Finch
Maurice Riordan
an original and thoroughly twenty-first century debut.
Peter Finch
Crackles with good ideas, reality and youth - qualities that rarely arrive at the same time - a winner.
Product Description
The Never-Never is the dazzling debut collection of poetry by one of the UK's most distinctive new voices. From joyriders in the rain-lashed back streets and housing estates of Wales, to London, California and beyond, Kathryn Gray gives us compelling tales of love and loss, of friendship, exile and the distant promise of home. At once playful and serious, allusive and direct, her narratives exude formal skill, great feeling and a wicked, erudite wit, making this among the most readable and startling collections of recent years.
About the Author
Born in Caerphilly, Wales in 1973 and raised in Swansea, Kathryn Gray studied German and Medievalism at the Universities of Bristol and York. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2001 and her poems have appeared in the TLS, The Independent, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and other major journals. Her art, theatre and book reviews have also been published widely. She currently lives in London where she works as a freelance writer.
