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1 My Objects of Affection Katherine Coles , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue , April no. 61 2021;

'This essay presents both scholarly and personal insight into how, through the deployment of objects, poems come into the world, operate, and inhabit the life of a reader.'  (Publication abstract)

1 The (re)Made Man Katherine Coles , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT : Journal of Writing and Writing Courses , April vol. 22 no. 1 2018;

'If the prose poem keeps its time across the sentence rather than the line, it also distinguishes itself from narrative as the lyric does, by sequestering narrative, with its relentless cause-and-effect motion, to a space outside the poem itself. Cannily situating the poems of Íkaros within the overarching context of a story so familiar most children know it, Paul Hetherington relieves himself of any obligation to provide narrative, and so allows himself to cast each poetic gesture adrift on lyric time, where the poems can operate in the realm of pure voice.' (Publication summary)

1 The Stranger I Become (For Jen Webb) Katherine Coles , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , no. 40 2017;
'I am known to walk a lot by modern standards, on most days for seven or more miles. Fitness isn’t the point, at least not all of it. Walking spins ideas free; its rhythm puts me in touch with myself, and the distance I travel reminds me I am always loose on the planet. Setting a pace, sallying forth, reminds me, mind comprising as it does every part of the body, not least the heart, which tells me I am frightened or in love before I know to ask. The sensory organs—skin, eyes, ears—fire information constantly. Synthesised and brought to language in the brain, that information creates an ongoing sense of change that we call ‘mind’, which feels apart from the body but is of the body. Without the body, the brain is a dull grey blob, inert. Like it or lump it.' (Publication abstract)
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