Excerpts from Kate Fox’s poems are included in the March 2018 Preliminary Outcomes Evaluation Report, published by the Culture, Place and Policy Institute of the University of Hull. Kate sent this to me a couple of weeks ago after reading my post around ‘mode of address‘ and who we are talking to as poets. Inside, a yellowing label "Dunn and Co Gentleman's Outfitters, Duraform". Check it out here: The Conversation articleÂ. I’ve always wanted to write one since reading Julia Copus’s ‘In the Back Seat of My Mother’s Car’. 1 Comments. 341 Favourites. #onehourreimagine. Recent poem:  Recent poem on the poet Kim Moore’s blog, Link to Kate performing live from Hull 2017 on Woman’s Hour, talking Lass War & accents & performing a poem: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gwfyq#t=33m35s. Susi Pitura Kim Moore’s latest post, Pingback: Sunday Poem – Kate Fox — Kim Moore – wendyprattpoetry, ‘The personal is the political’ was/is a feminist slogan from the 60s onward. Sep 8, 2018 - Explore Salvador Salvador's board "Kate fox ( Great Tutorials )", followed by 393 people on Pinterest. Today’s Sunday Poem is by Kate Fox. She was awarded a PhD in solo stand up performance, class, gender and Northernness at Leeds University. I like the directness of this poem, and felt like, as a woman, it was talking to me.  Does that mean it can’t be read by men because it is talking about maternal lineage? See more ideas about drawing poses, art reference, drawings. Kate Fox is a poet based in Northern England who has made two comedy series for Radio 4 and written and performed numerous broadcast poetry commissions as a regular on Radio 3’s The Verb and Radio 4’s Saturday Live. 900 Favourites.  Her stand up spoken word show celebrating Northern women; “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” sold out several theatres in the North of England when it toured after being commissioned by the Great Exhibition of the North in 2018. Her chapbook, The Lazarus Method, was published by Kent State University Press as part of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Series. 🙂. I’m still being a poet and broadcaster though. Kate Fox’s most popular book is Watching the English: The Hidden Rules of English Behaviour. That includes two comedy series called The Price of Happiness for Radio 4 about things she’s supposed to want but doesn’t and her current touring show “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” about notable Northern women. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Weekly Poem for 15 December 2020 by Kate Fox. Kate Fox has made a living as a stand-up poet for ten years.She has nearly finished her PhD about class, gender and Northern humour). 12 Comments. Years after you loaded your last bomb. Kate Fox is a writer, performer and broadcaster who sometimes describes herself as a stand-up poet. I’ve seen friends, swum and sorted my flat out. She has used her reporting skills as a “plenary poet”, summarising conferences in poem version, for organisations including the Arts Council, Creative Partnerships, New Writing North and the People’s Powerhouse. She has made two comedy series for BBC Radio 4, is a regular voice on shows like ‘Pick of The Week’ and Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’, and has been Poet-in-Residence for the Great North Run, Glastonbury Festival and ‘Saturday Live’ on Radio 4. Kate Fox reads as part of the Verse Matters event at Moor Theatre Delicatessen, 17 The Moor, Sheffield, S1 4PF on Saturday 27 May. ( Log Out /  She has been commissioned to write and perform poems for BBC1 (Including 2014’s “Great North Passion” in South Shields and the Great North Run, 2011 and 2015), BBC2’s Daily Politics, Radio 3’s “The Verb”, 6Music and many Radio 4 shows and has performed at venues from Latitude to the Stand Comedy Club, the Soho Theatre to Oakland University, USA and Turku Literature Festival in Finland. Oh- also, she recently invented a new word for when humour and seriousness combine: Humitas. Happy to discuss how best to distribute so you don’t lose out. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. 845 Favourites. Susichapman@hotmail.co.uk. Poet Kate Fox talks about her new collection The Oscillations, exploring distance and isolation in the age of the pandemic, refracted through the lenses of neurodiversity and trauma in poems … NOT HER, NO. https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/XuNqyRIAACIArun9, https://www.thebookseller.com/news/indie-press-nine-arches-publish-100th-book-followed-12-new-titles-1222677, https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ezb3v2/acts/abdrj5, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000h2kq, https://www.yorkshirelife.co.uk/people/kate-fox-1-6291355, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08gwfyq#t=33m35s, Writing a show for the Ted Hughes Festival about an imagined encounter between the poet Ted Hughes and the comedian Bernard Manning (! how that Auntie started a driving school, the realisation that your brows all wrinkle in the same place. I went to see Lemn Sissay at the Brewery with a friend this week – what a great performer he is.  Watching him is basically a masterclass in how to hold the attention of an audience.  And the story of ‘Something Dark’, his play, is absolutely heartbreaking. MM: I’d like to start by talking about the organization of the Oscillations, which you’ve sorted into poems of After and Before the Coronavirus Pandemic. She is also currently writing a commissioned play about an imagined encounter between Ted Hughes and Bernard Manning for the Ted Hughes Festival.Â, In 2017 she directed and co-wrote (with Hull collective Women of Words) a show called “Queens of the North”,  a commission from Hull 2017 and the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival.Â. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Or check out the trailer for the touring solo version of the show here: “Fabulous, feminist and funny”- Morning Star. She has been a Poet in Residence on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run. but you’re hearing fragments of chatter. through the things they were told they couldn’t do. We thought there’d be more people. In the shows she talked about why she doesn’t want: children, a big white wedding, to be middle class or have a Hollywood body! ( Log Out /  Follow poet Kate Fox on her mental and physical journey as she prepares for the Bupa Great North Run. This was years after your friend froze to death on the concrete staircase outside his Florida apartment. I also had a meeting with Pauline about Kendal Poetry Festival – we sat at Pauline’s kitchen table for another four hours.  We’ve heard back from all of our poets and we now have the full line up confirmed.  I’m so excited about this year’s poets.  We’re meeting again on Tuesday to try and finish the form off, and having the line up confirmed, subject to funding, will hopefully provide us with the motivation to finish the endless paperwork. Kate She declared “Lass War” on male-heavy representations of the Northern Powerhouse in a protest outside a Northern Powerhouse conference in 2017 and has spoken on several panels about how important it is to improve representations of neurodiversity, Northern Englishness and working classness in the arts and media.Â. KateFoX line brushes for Photoshop. Join Kate Fox plus guest poets Joanne Limburg and Jessica Mookherjee to celebrate the publication of Kate's new collection The Oscillations.. Thursday 25 February 7.30pm (GMT) This event will be streamed live through the Nine Arches Press YouTube channel.. Those who register to 'attend' will receive an event link by email the day before the event. ps: I AM NOT THE KATE FOX THE SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGIST WHO WROTE WATCHING THE ENGLISH. Kate-FoX. 3 Comments. I’m sure we’d have sold out. Kate Fox is a writer, performer and broadcaster who sometimes describes herself as a stand-up poet. Thanks to Kate for letting me use her poem this week.  Kate came and read at the Lakes Alive festival a couple of weeks ago, along with Mark Pajak, and they were both brilliant, putting up with gale force winds, torrential rain and an outdoor reading to a small and soggy audience.  They handled everything that was thrown at them with grace, humour and energy and left me congratulating myself at my own genius for booking them.  If you hear of Kate performing anywhere near you – go and see her.  She is funny, but her poetry will make you think as well.  She’s a great performer, but as you can see below, her poems have depth and layers and work on the page as well. Biography. In 2009 she was the only writer ever to do a Cultural Leadership placement and researched writers’ work with young people. I’ve been Poet in Residence for all sorts of things – from the Glastonbury Festival to the Great North Run – but to be around people whose world is books and who love the power of words will be a particular pleasure.” Kate Fox is a poet, comedian and performance and writing facilitator based in Newcastle upon Tyne. Gumroad. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Little spirit. www.katefox.co.uk. Fox originally trained as a radio journalist at Trinity and Leeds Trinity University in Leeds and worked as a reporter, bulletin reader and desk editor at commercial stations including Metro Radio and Galaxy Radio in Newcastle and Manchester until 2005. She’s also a gentle activist and campaigner for the voices of Northerners, the working class, women and the neurodiverse to be heard; mainly by teaching and running workshops in schools and community groups -and by speaking, writing, raising awareness and tutting at injustice and inequality. in the Radio 4 Poetry Slam. She has been a Poet in Residence on Radio 4’s Saturday Live, Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run. Kate Fox. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Yesterday I ran Barrow Poetry Workshop – nine people from all over Cumbria and one new young poet who I was very pleased to see.  I met him a few years ago when I did the readings for the NCS summer school sessions in Ambleside, and then he appeared at the workshop, so that was a nice day, as well as the usual friendly faces being there of course. She won the Andrew Waterhouse Award from New Writing North in 2006, an Arts Council Time to Write award and in 2019, an ACE Developing Your Creative Practice Award. Publications include “Fox Populi” from Smokestack Books (2013),  pieces in Bloodaxes’s “Funny Peculiar, Funny Ha Ha” and the “Iron Book of Humorous Verse” and she has edited several anthologies of young writers work. Her next collection “The Oscillations” will be published by Nine Arches in 2021 and she is currently on the Poetry Business’ Advanced Poetry course. when we had the stripper on. She is one of the 17 poets for the BBC/Hull 2017 Contains Strong Language Poetry Festival (Great film about her commission here: Women of Words film). Her books include Chronotopia, just out from Burning Eye Books (ORDER IT HERE! Chronotopia) and Fox Populi from Smokestack Books. Kate Fox Kate Fox ‘s poems have appeared in the Great River Review, Green Mountains Review, Valparaiso Review, Mount Hope, and West Branch. She has supported acts including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Hollie McNish, John Cooper Clarke and John Hegley and is a headline act in her own right. Here’s an update on some stuff I’ve done lately/am doing: I’m also working on a project which will continue my celebration of Northern women “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras”. Your email address will not be published. Basically she’s a writer and performer and due to her extensive work on the radio in the past few years, quite a few people do come and see her work after all. Today’s Sunday Poem is by Kate Fox.  Kate sent this to me a couple of weeks ago after reading my post around ‘mode of address‘ and who we are talking to as poets. Kate Fox. Kate Fox is creating Comics, 2D art, pose-study sets and fox-illustration. Kate Fox is creating content you must be 18+ to view. ), I’ve been collaborating with photographer Colin Potsig on projects where we use my words and his images to explore things- initially fellow autistic people. Details to be revealed when contract  ink is dry! We thought there’d be more people, you deserve more there’s no doubt, if we had six more months to advertise. KATE Fox has been commissioned by the National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF) to write and perform a poem this week in line with the celebrations for village halls. Yes, I am 18 or older. the threads are criss-crossing with other chains, ones that got lost and trampled in the dirtÂ, but at this moment it’s making a double helix, you’re holding it, just this one thread. I’ve also started reading feminst theorist bell hooks this week, and absolutely loving her work.  She writes about feminism, racism and class.  I could only find one of her books in the library, ‘talking back’, published in 1989 but it feels like it could have been published last week.  As those of you who have read my past few blogs will know, I’ve been thinking a lot about who I am addressing with my poetry, and also about responses to the poems I’m writing.  When I read the following, I felt elated, that someone had articulated what I’ve been struggling with for different reasons: When I first began to talk publicly about my work, I would be disappointed when audiences were provoked and challenged but seemed to disapprove. ( Log Out /  Please note that these poems were written by Kate Fox as ‘Poet in Residence’ on the day – they were written in rapid response to the day and performed by Kate at the start and end of the afternoon session. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. who didn’t chuck themselves under a horse, but who managed to steer their own course. She has taught and facilitated numerous creative writing. I also love the humour in this poem – ‘somehow your nan’s not distracted by the Yorkshire terrier/ and your mum’s not said anything mean about your hair’.  I think the humour makes sure that the poem does not become sentimental.  That phrase/motto ‘you can’t pick your family, but you can pick your friends’ is kind of buried in the poem in the middle ‘you’re waiting for someone/to snap the lens shutter so you can go back to people who suit you/your husband, your friends’.  I like that the poem acknowledges that there are different ways of living a feminist life. She has been poet in residence for the Great North Run, Saturday Live on Radio 4 and the Glastonbury Festival. I’m an ex pat Hullensian lass, living in Essex. She has a PhD in Performance from the University of Leeds. As a reminder for me- this was a lovely profile of me by Hazel Davis that came out in the Before Times.Â. Trekking from the city centre during the blitz. Check out the show’s website, here! DO NOT GET IN TOUCH TO ASK ME TO TALK ABOUT WHY ENGLISH PEOPLE QUEUE AND DRINK TEA. A copy of which is available to download on the University of Hull website. Weekly Poem for 19 February 2021 'Maps' by David Constantine. I tweeted you earlier – thanks for the reply. Listened to the show on R4 today, brilliant. Her second Radio 4 comedy series aired this summer. Get paid for your art. I forgot we were sitting in a yurt with no walls with rain falling sideways while listening to her (she was that good). Kate Fox, Poet of the Fair, commented: “I’m so chuffed to be selected as Poet of the Fair (a pleasingly rhythmic title). Change ). I may have been a bit tired/emotional but I genuinely wept at your stirring womanifesto and want to give copies to my nieces and maybe even the girls of St Mary’s College Hull. somehow your nan’s not distracted by the Yorkshire terrier, and your mum’s not said anything mean about your hair, though mostly every alternate woman in my chain. She is a regular contributor to Radio 3’s The Verb and presenter of Radio 4’s “Pick of the Week”. Click here for further details. Kate found the postures and physicality of these silhouettes to be particularly emotive and hopes to create a poem that might add to this idea of a physical female presence. ... Jagger's Yurt: Poems from Glastonbury 2013 by. making the chain, of women you’ll still mostly never name, as they stretch into the horizon’s edge. Kate Fox has 28 books on Goodreads with 23337 ratings. 568 Favourites. I hope not – I hope the poem just shifts the ground underneath male readers by looking past them to the women standing next to them. Weekly Poem for 22 December 2020 'nonrestorative sleep' by William Gee. Writer, Broadcaster and Performer: Where There's Muck, There's Bras. I couldn’t make up my mind if I loved this book or hated it. ( Log Out /  Poll. Years of desert deployments. Sallyann Clarke Beautiful copper fox I’d love to have you in my treasure box; Nicky Thomas Based on ADF’s morning training session by ITC chief exec Charlotte Jones Her two Radio 4 shows on iPlayer: The Price of Happiness, Her book Fox Populi from Smokestack Press: Buy here. She has appeared on Radio 4.  She is currently making #Lass War on the man-heavy Northern Powerhouse. I’ve actually felt like this is the best rest I’ve had for years. DeviantArt - Homepage. Commission.  Her new show “Bigger on the Inside” uses a stand up lecture format to explore the history of neurodiversity through a lens of Doctor Who and was commissioned by the BBC’s Contains Strong Language Festival in 2020. Thanks for your work! 12 Comments. I also had an exciting meeting this week regarding a new anthology of Cumbrian poetry which I’ll be co-editing.  I can’t say much more than that at the moment, but watch this space, because there’ll be an official announcement soon. Two poems by Natalie Whittaker. Kate Fox in the National Portrait Gallery: Link to Portrait and Blurb about it. Do get in touch with gig queries, questions, thoughts, kind words…. $1. She won the Andrew Waterhouse Award for poetry from New Writing North in 2006. Kate’s poems have also been published in “The Iron Book of Humorous Verse” (Iron Press-2012), “The Gardeners” (OWF Press-2014), Poetry Salzburg, the Morning Star, Anon, Under the Radar, Rising, Sand, Magma, Ink Sweat and Tears, the Biscuit Prizewinners Anthology and quite a … Really enjoyed it. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! Kate Fox works mainly as a stand-up poet and as a broadcaster and speaker. Woven with grey wool in billowing mills where he bought and sold. Aoki and Akane. back, back in a long line that stretches further than you can see. A list of poems by Susan Rich - The Academy of American Poets is the largest membership-based nonprofit organization fostering an appreciation for contemporary poetry and supporting American poets. Heraclitus: You cannot step twice into the same river You aren’t even the same person who stepped into your last bath. Katie Clinton The copper fox trots around eternity Seeking solace, seeking love, Seeking you or me. These women who are not on an official record. Select a membership level. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. Chronotopia by Kate Fox £ 9.99 These poems come from a variety of residencies and random thoughts over the past few years; from the Glastonbury Festival and the Great North Run, from a Cheshire mill and a Muslim girl's school in Bradford. Kate Fox is a stand-up poet. Awake, they tussled up and down the honeysuckle, still kits, all muzzle, light feet. As well as being beautiful works of art, these poems serve as an additional layer 685 Favourites. Not only was my desire for approval naive (I have since come to understand that it is silly to think that one can challenge and also have approval), it was dangerous precisely because such a longing can undermine radical commitment, compelling a change in voice so as to gain regard. this is sort of an obligation, sort of a privilege. Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com. I wasn't entitled to my father's name but I asked to keep his hat. She trained as a journalist and radio reporter. She is now working on a book of the show for a major publisher. The verses include references to activities she tried out in one week in one hall. Kate-FoX. Susan Rich is the author of Cloud Pharmacy (White Pine Press, 2014). Moira, Loved Kate Fox’s poetry at Lakes Alive.