Kate Potts

These poems are luminous despatches from the charged, porous boundary between animal and human. They pull apart and remake definitions and categorisations of wildness and civilisation, training their focus on the language we use to describe youth, social class, and the body. From iron horses to grizzly bears, from deep-water fish to scanderoons, Feral roams the limits of power, language,...

In Pretenders, her third book of poetry, Kate Potts asks: what is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? And what can 'the imposter phenomenon'—a sense that our true abilities and achievements, and other core aspects of our identities, are unreal, undeserved or mistakenly bestowed—tell us about who we are and how...