Kathryn Bevis

Kathryn Bevis

Kathryn Bevis is former Hampshire Laureate and founder of The Writing School Online. Her poems have appeared in: Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland Review, Magma, The London Magazine, and Mslexia. In the last year, poems of hers have won the Wales Poetry Award, the Second Light Poetry Competition, and co-won both the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society Members’ Competition. Flamingo is her debut pamphlet, published by Seren. It was recently named as one of the Poetry Society’s ‘Books of the Year’ for 2022 and has just been shortlisted for the Saboteur Award for best pamphlet in 2022. Her debut collection, The Butterfly House, is forthcoming with Seren.

Kathryn Bevis’ poem ‘The Smuggler‘ can be viewed on Poetry Film Live and read in Poets & Players.