Kate Middleton

Passage, Kate Middleton's third poetry collection, continues her preoccupation with terrestrial and other landscapes, both real and imagined. The poems haunt, and are haunted by, the legacies of literature and history. Whether inhabiting the scientific laboratory, the exploratory voyage, the layered history of landscape, or the voices of past authors, they are interested in the border-zones of understanding, in both...

The poems in Fire Season are illuminated by the intensity of everyday experience, dwelling in situations of want or absence, or radiant in the aura of those legendary beings, the heroines and monsters of film and story and myth, around whom the drama of life is concentrated. Alert to the forces which inhabit relationships, or exhaust them, and to the...

Shortlisted, NSW Literary Awards 2025, Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry A poetry collection which is part criticism, part autobiography, and always acute in its recollection of the emotions inspired by television drama In her new collection, Television, award-winning poet Kate Middleton considers the emotional impact that television programmes had on her formative years—from childhood cartoons like Astro Boy and Roadrunner...