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
- Acknowledgements
- Authorâs Note
- My Trouble With Line Breaks
- Contents
- Our Ends in the North
- My Mother as a Day of the Week
- Northern Voices
- The Railway Children
- Reflection
- The Day I Became a Journalist
- Heirloom
- My Void Year
- The Psychiatristâs Confession
- The Gag
- The Maths
- Pelt
- Sveaborg
- Nostalgie de la Boue
- The Phone Book
- There is an Enemy
- Lots of Planets Have a North
- Eruption
- Women on the Radio
- Caller 103 Wins the Madonna Tickets
- Paralysis
- Scientists
- No News Day
- The Day I Became a Poet
- The Draft
- Small Girlfriends
- Experiencing Drawing my Foot
- The Romantic Poet Becomes a Realist
- The Lost Word
- The Hand Reader
- The Injured
- How to Hurt a Masochist
- Threshold
- His Version
- We Are Not Stones: a Glosa
- The Pen
- Stolen Stones
- Opposite Sides of the Wall
- Emin 8
- Pigeon
- Dead Pull
- Blessing
- Curse
- Female Bodyguard
- Rheology
- Baubo
- Grief Talking
- Consultation
- The Gardeners
- Great North Ron
- Being Sylvia Plath
- Lovely Poem, with a Sting
- Darts Wag
- You Donât Look Like a Runner
- Casual
- Brain Scan
- Fe Fi Fo Fum
- Connected
- The Opposite of a Ghost
- Stop
- Playground
- Runners Block
- One in a Million
- Run
- How to do Fartlek Training
- Metamorphic
- Darkroom
- How Relationships Grow
- Muscles
- Bed
- Christmas Presence
- Joint
- Only Connect
- Postcript
- Notes on âOnly Connectâ
