Kate Davis - South Cumbria Poet Laureate 2008
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Kate Davis was crowned South Cumbria Poet Laureate at the Word Market festival in February 2008. |
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| "I initially trained as a fashion designer in the belief that messing about with beautiful fabric was likely to be more entertaining and less hard work than the chosen career paths of many of my teenaged peers. It was.
I turned out to be a moderately good designer but was unlikely ever to set the world on fire and, although I’ve never fallen out with frocks we drifted apart. Over the years I’ve moved backwards in the direction of my first passion in life, literature. I now work mainly with words and text in schools and with community groups. I think my work is concerned with finding…ways to say exactly what we mean. This can translate into all manner of things; I’ll try any medium to find ways of getting to the point. Historically I’ve tended to say that I can’t do narrative but I’m beginning to realize that telling stories is pretty much all I do. In the coming year I’m planning to spend more time in schools and with community groups and getting more people involved with and excited about poetry. It should be fun!" |
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