Kate Potts

Kate Potts is a poet and academic. She teaches for Middlesex University and The Poetry School, and freelances as a creative writing tutor, mentor and editor.

Kate's second collection, Feral (Bloodaxe, 2018) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and a Telegraph poetry book of the month. Her debut pamphlet Whichever Music (tall-lighthouse, 2008) was a Poetry Book Society choice and was shortlisted for a Michael Marks Award. Her first first full-length collection was Pure Hustle (Bloodaxe, 2011).

She is currently working on Pretenders, an Arts Council England funded multi-voice work exploring imposter syndrome.

'To read Feral for a while is to find it bamboozling and beautiful, to want to read it for longer. Once that’s done, the only response is to consider it a masterpiece, and to feel that everyone who cares about language should read it.' - Jonathan Edwards on Feral, Poetry Wales

'Kate Potts is one of the foremost writers of our generation.'  - Fiona Benson