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Carole Coates began her career as a lecturer in English Literature and started writing poetry in middle age. The most important influences on her work are the novels of John Cowper Powys, the Conversation poems of Coleridge and Feminism. Her first collection The Goodbye Edition was published by Shoestring Press in 2005. “Its teasing perspectives already suggest Coates’s poetic approach. The poems translate this filmy transparency into words, and right from the start to the final unsettling little (nursery?) Rhyme there’s the same equivocal shiftiness of perspective: an almost-seeing, a glimpse of the ghost in her work” Envoi
“Coates’s range of subject matter is considerable as well as her technical ability. This is particularly evident in “Stalker”, an address to someone who is making her life a misery. In the brilliant sonnet “A History” we see her ability to strip a subject down to its essential rather as a painter does in scraping down an oil painting leaving only a sketched idea of the infrastructure. This is a risky business but it works here as it does in other poems. It does, though, make us work, and there’s nothing wrong in that. This is a volume that excites and challenges.” Other Poetry Carole has been working on a sequence of poems about anorexia which will feature in her second collection "Looking Good" which Shoestring Press will publish in 2009. She has been widely published in the literary press and she has also published critical writings. She is a member of Sixpoets, a writing and performance group based in the North West. Her poetry reading venues include The Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh; The Blue Room, Newcastle; Lancaster Literature Festival and The Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal.
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