Kathryn Gray is the judge of our 2024 Open Poetry Competition. She will appear at the Royal Wells Hotel in Tunbridge Wells on Tuesday 16th April at 8 pm, to announce and introduce the seven prize winners. After their poems have been read – by the poets themselves if possible, either in the flesh or on Zoom – Kathryn will read from her own poetry.
Kathryn Gray was born in Wales and now lives in North London. Recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, her first collection, The Never-Never (Seren, 2004), was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. An artist’s book with Mary Modeen, Uncertain Territories, appeared from Pharos Editions in 2011, and a pamphlet, Flowers, was published by Rack Press in 2016. Her collection of interviews with leading Welsh and Wales-associated poets, Voices and Visions: Interviews with the Contemporary English-Language Poets of Wales, was released by Peter Lang in 2019. Gray’s reviews and essays have been published widely, and she has been a contributor to arts programmes for the BBC. She is a former editor of New Welsh Review and Parthian Books, and currently co-helms the digital poetry journal Bad Lilies.
Kathryn’s 2023 collection from Seren is: Hollywood or Home.
The Kent & Sussex Poetry Society 