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Pat Borthwick
Pat Borthwick
Pat Borthwick was brought up on the canals and waterways of Britain and
now lives in rural North Yorkshire. She first trained in visual art and
worked for many years as a ceramic sculptor.
She has been Writer in Residence for prisons, libraries, schools and
hospitals as well as for a canal, a coalmine, a chalk cliff and a cabbage.
Roger Garfitt describes her work as being that of ‘a poet with real stars up
her sleeve,’ and Simon Armitage says of her that she is ‘a mapmaker with
whose maps you can truly find your way.’
She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2003
This is a marvellous and marvellously enjoyable collection: clear-eyed,
insightful, witty and often moving. Whether writing about the man who
collects teapots or the couple with their Monet, whether visiting a geriatric
ward or ‘passing on the tickle,’ Pat Borthwick’s writing manages to stay
surprising and assured. This is by far her best work to date, so honest and
alive, and still with that undercurrent of music that has always been her
signature.
- Peter Sansom
now lives in rural North Yorkshire. She first trained in visual art and
worked for many years as a ceramic sculptor.
She has been Writer in Residence for prisons, libraries, schools and
hospitals as well as for a canal, a coalmine, a chalk cliff and a cabbage.
Roger Garfitt describes her work as being that of ‘a poet with real stars up
her sleeve,’ and Simon Armitage says of her that she is ‘a mapmaker with
whose maps you can truly find your way.’
She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 2003
This is a marvellous and marvellously enjoyable collection: clear-eyed,
insightful, witty and often moving. Whether writing about the man who
collects teapots or the couple with their Monet, whether visiting a geriatric
ward or ‘passing on the tickle,’ Pat Borthwick’s writing manages to stay
surprising and assured. This is by far her best work to date, so honest and
alive, and still with that undercurrent of music that has always been her
signature.
- Peter Sansom
PUBLICATION OCTOBER 2007 - available for preorder
PB £4.00
ISBN-13 978-1-906285-01-2