McKay & Miles Poetry

Join us as we host Kath McKay and Robb Miles who'll be sharing poems from their new collections in our community space. 

Kath McKay was born in Liverpool, studied at Queen’s, Belfast, and Goldsmith’s, London, and lives in Leeds. Since 2008 she has taught fiction and poetry at the University of Hull. She writes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. She has published two full poetry collections, Anyone Left Standing, Smith Doorstop, winner of the 1998 Poetry Business competition and Collision Forces (Wrecking Ball Press, 2015), and a booklet, Telling the Bees, Smiths Knoll, 2014. Kath’s collection, Moving the Elephant, is published in 2024 by The Garlic Press.

Rob Miles is from Devon, and he lives in Leeds. His poetry has appeared widely in magazines and multiple anthologies, and he has won various competitions including the Philip Larkin Prize, judged by Don Paterson, the Resurgence International Ecopoetry Prize, judged by Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, and the Poets & Players Prize, judged by Sinéad Morrissey. His collection, Dimmet, is published in 2024 by Broken Sleep Books. He is Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Leeds.