Fox Populi
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Fox Populi

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Fox Populi

About this book

Click the 'Extracts' tab above to read our exclusive interview with Kate Fox, plus sample poems from the book. Fox Populi takes poetry on a hilarious, Creature Comforts -style journey through the crackly airwaves of contemporary culture. Radio-mic in hand, Kate Fox listens in on comedians and psychiatrists, Great North runners and nutters, and the staff of a call centre in modern-day Tynemouth. Herself a familiar voice on BBC TV and radio, this first full-length collection confirms Kate Fox's position as one of the UK's most popular poet-comedians."Funny, quirky and a wonderful writer."
Sarah Millican, stand-up comedian

"Self deprecating and wry throughout, this is poetry that is both accessible, true and wise."
The Crack "Sylvia Plath channelling Victoria Wood"
Matt Harvey Kate Fox is a poet, performer and comedian. Born in Bradford in 1975, she is the Poet in Residence on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live. She has been the Poet in Residence for the BBC2 coverage of the Chelsea Flower Show, and for the Great North Run in 2011 and 2012. Her poems have been broadcast on the BBC2 Daily Politics show, BBC Online, Amnesty International and Radio 3's The Verb with Ian McMillan. Her one-woman Edinburgh Festival show, Kate Fox News, toured the UK in 2010-11 (4 stars, Sunday Telegraph ). She has also appeared at several other major festivals including Latitude, Aldeburgh and Cheltenham. Her poems recently appeared in The Iron Book of Humorous Verse (Iron Press, 2010). She lives in Thirsk, and writes a weekly column for The Journal newspaper in Newcastle.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Author’s Note
  3. My Trouble With Line Breaks
  4. Contents
  5. Our Ends in the North
  6. My Mother as a Day of the Week
  7. Northern Voices
  8. The Railway Children
  9. Reflection
  10. The Day I Became a Journalist
  11. Heirloom
  12. My Void Year
  13. The Psychiatrist’s Confession
  14. The Gag
  15. The Maths
  16. Pelt
  17. Sveaborg
  18. Nostalgie de la Boue
  19. The Phone Book
  20. There is an Enemy
  21. Lots of Planets Have a North
  22. Eruption
  23. Women on the Radio
  24. Caller 103 Wins the Madonna Tickets
  25. Paralysis
  26. Scientists
  27. No News Day
  28. The Day I Became a Poet
  29. The Draft
  30. Small Girlfriends
  31. Experiencing Drawing my Foot
  32. The Romantic Poet Becomes a Realist
  33. The Lost Word
  34. The Hand Reader
  35. The Injured
  36. How to Hurt a Masochist
  37. Threshold
  38. His Version
  39. We Are Not Stones: a Glosa
  40. The Pen
  41. Stolen Stones
  42. Opposite Sides of the Wall
  43. Emin 8
  44. Pigeon
  45. Dead Pull
  46. Blessing
  47. Curse
  48. Female Bodyguard
  49. Rheology
  50. Baubo
  51. Grief Talking
  52. Consultation
  53. The Gardeners
  54. Great North Ron
  55. Being Sylvia Plath
  56. Lovely Poem, with a Sting
  57. Darts Wag
  58. You Don’t Look Like a Runner
  59. Casual
  60. Brain Scan
  61. Fe Fi Fo Fum
  62. Connected
  63. The Opposite of a Ghost
  64. Stop
  65. Playground
  66. Runners Block
  67. One in a Million
  68. Run
  69. How to do Fartlek Training
  70. Metamorphic
  71. Darkroom
  72. How Relationships Grow
  73. Muscles
  74. Bed
  75. Christmas Presence
  76. Joint
  77. Only Connect
  78. Postcript
  79. Notes on ‘Only Connect’