Gardening with Deer - Tapa blanda

The latest collection from Forward Anthology Poet Kathy Miles, twice winner of the One Voice Monologue Competition. Gardening With Deer sees Kathy Miles continuing to surprise, delight and unsettle. Weaving together life and myth, light and dark, the poems are vivid and visceral, but never showy. The language is honed, beautifully controlled, exquisitely crafted so that the images resonate long after reading.

"Kathy Miles is a poet with a unique voice. Her poems are dense and subtle but always accessible. Whatever the subject of the poem you can be sure that Kathy Miles will come at it from a totally original angle. There is almost always an intake of surprise. Many of her poems reveal something dark and elusive at their heart: She is particularly good at hinting at an unsettling undercurrent in relationships."
- Anne Grimes

Kathy Miles is a poet, playwright and short-story writer, Kathy also writes children s stories and monologues. She was born in Liverpool and moved to Wales in 1972. Educated at the University of Wales, Lampeter, Kathy worked in the College library. She is a founder-member of the Lampeter Writers Workshop and has been published in numerous magazines and anthologies, Her poetry has been successful in several major competitions, including the National Poetry Prize and most recently as winner of the Bridport Prize.