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Kathleen Kenny's sense of colour is the life force blazing through this collection. It is the means by which she re-enters by turn the landscapes of childhood, adolescence and motherhood, before diving into the elemental world of fire: the primitive and eternal territories of love loss loathing and desire. "Kenny is at her best in her often surprising and synaesthetic imagery, like 'these full-bloomed nasturtiums... papering the room with dance' in 'Firewall' or 'hear that crape crackle - yellow!' in 'Sensuous'. She engages all the senses, using children's sweets, for example, to suggest taste, colour and texture, and with them all the memories of childhood, and in, 'Analysand', a sense of extreme vulnerability." Josephine Dickinson "Kathleen Kenny's latest collection from Red Squirrel Press is firmly rooted in her native Northumberland, but at the same time deals with more universal themes of adolescence, motherhood, sex, loneliness, all observed with a wry humour and a sharp observation of detail." Colin Speakman "Firesprung is a spellbinding book. Kenny has a command of English speech patterns, especially the local idiom in all its brashness and stark humour, and it really illuminates almost every page. A gifted spinner of a very personal and always uniquely Geordie web of words... This tumultuous part four is almost indescribable in its sub-comical intensities... (an) unusually gifted poet, once totally unknown to me, but on whose very special poetic gifts I shall look out for in the future." James Kirkup Kathleen Kenny lives and writes in Newcastle upon Tyne. She works as a part-time creative writing lecturer for Sunderland University. Her new collection from Red Squirrel is Keening with Spittal Tongues.
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