Kate Middleton

Kate Middleton is an Australian writer. She is the author of the poetry collections Fire Season (Giramondo, 2009), awarded the Western Australian Premier’s Award for Poetry in 2009 and Ephemeral Waters (Giramondo, 2013), shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s award in 2014. From September 2011-September 2012 she was the inaugural Sydney City Poet.

Kate Middleton reviews 'and then when the' by Dan Disney

June 2012, no. 342 • 22 May 2012

Dan Disney’s début collection, and then when the, is a slim volume infused with irreverent outings in philosophy and place. Just as the opening poem places its speaker in a philosophy class, philosophers offer constant points of reference. Disney reformulates such well-worn dicta as Descartes’s cogito ergo sum with verve, as in the poem ‘Towards a unifying theory of non-coincidence’, in w ... (read more)

'After Reading Henry James’s "The Awkward Age"', a new poem by Kate Middleton

March 2012, no. 339 • 27 February 2012

Mitchy: Do you positively like to love in vain? Kate Middleton ... (read more)

Kate Middleton reviews 'The Best Australian Poems 2011' edited by John Tranter

February 2012, no. 338 • 20 January 2012

With the recent focus on new anthologies in the Australian poetry community firmly placed on UNSW Press’s Australian Poetry Since 1788 (edited by Geoffrey Lehmann and Robert Gray) and the publication of two anthologies dedicated to the work of younger poets (UQP’s Thirty Australian Poets and John Leonard Press’s Young Poets), the arrival of Best Australian Poems 2011 could seem almost like a ... (read more)