Awards
Costa Poetry Award
2009 Shortlist
One Eye'd Leigh by Katharine Kilalea
Publisher: Carcanet
One Eye'd Leigh is a book of portraits, experiments and objects made of words. They find their locations between Cape Town and London, between the dawn of the new millennium and the present day. Guided by a biological thread, in this first collection, Kilalea borrows the techniques of a craftsman to transform material into new shapes; an artist's concentrated gaze at the very particular subject in her portrait poems; an embroiderer's delicate craft of stitching to create a paced poetry, meticulous in detail.
Katharine Kilalea was born in South Africa and moved to London in 2005 to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. She has received an Arts Council Award for poetry and her poems have appeared in a variety of journals. Katharine lives and works in London.
Judges: "A humorous, unpredictable and imaginative debut. Kilalea makes deceptively well-crafted poems that are like sculptures."
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