Hannah Kate

Hannah Kate is a poet and short story writer based in North Manchester, UK. Her work has appeared in local and national magazines, as well as in anthologies. Her work is eclectic in content and tone, and usually inspired by whatever has got stuck in her mind at the time: owls, text messages, medieval poetry, werewolves, mental health…

Website : http://hannahkate.net/

Titles by Hannah Kate

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Variant Spelling

Hannah Kate is a North Manchester-based poet, author and editor. Her work has appeared in a number of local and national magazines, as well as an anthology published by Crocus Books. She is a freelance teacher of English, Maths and Creative Writing, and reviews genre fiction and academic writing for a number of organizations. This is her first full-length collection of poetry.

The poems in Variant Spelling evoke a North in revolt; a place of abandoned dyeworks, soot, winter, granite and grease. Through the ‘shifting vowels’ of the title poem they celebrate a world at odds with the imposed culture of the South. It is at its most rebellious in Praise God, where Hannah ‘praises the God of the North’, a place where the ‘air hangs with burning witches’. - Rosie Lugosi, Poet and Performer

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Details

  • ISBN 9780957029200
  • Publisher Hic Dragones
  • Genre Poetry
  • Setting Greater Manchester

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