Kate Potts

Kate Potts completed an MA in Creative & Life Writing

at Goldsmiths College, London, and has taught in FE and

Adult Education Colleges. She won a Booktrust Creative

Writing Prize for teachers in 2006, and was commended by

New Writing Ventures the same year. Her poetry has been

published in Ambit, Magma and The Wolf.

PBS pamphlet choice Winter 2008

Kate Potts is a pickpocket of human experience in this tightly-rhythmed,

assonance-jellied, beetle-drawer of a pamphlet.

Jen Hadfield

Ghost no. 1 from whichever music

Phantom heels stalk the corridor:

click, click. My watery iris

at the fisheye. You are an amalgam

of angles, crystalline in denim.

I snap supermarket bags at your ears,

shuffle crockery, mimic the telephone

with the chirp at the tips of my teeth.

I’m a conjurer of uneasiness, spectre

of barely remembered door keys,

gas hob, medicine, disconsolate

child – your crush of vodka’d limbs.

Mine’s the suspension of breath.

You contemplate chaos, prostration,

beginning again in a new place

under a new name. I am the ice

in your liver – exhaled.