Transitional Spaces

Transitional Spaces, Kate Behrens’s fourth collection, is concerned with inner lives and the secret doings of damage and repair. Touching on politics, sickness, sex, art, global warming and the messages of fantasy and dream, it looks at the lost and the longed-for, and at what happens when the bonds between us rupture.

Nature appears as mirror, pointer or consolation. Creativity is explored in lines that include poets, a painter, a pattern-cutter and tapestry-maker, but also in our instinctual methods of surviving trauma. Behrens does not attempt an answer, rather she maps the trackways of feeling.

Author Biography

Kate Behrensʼ collections, The Beholder, Man with Bombe Alaska, and Penumbra are published by Two Rivers Press. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Salzburg, The High Window, Stand, Blackbox Manifold, Mslexia, The Arts of Peace, an Anthology of Poetry, and as Oxford Brookesʼ Poem of the Week.