The Observances

By Kate Miller

The Observances is Kate Miller's first full collection of poetry. As its title suggests, with the intertwining practices of watchfulness and remembrance these poems sustain their course. They follow an urge to locate in language, however tentatively, elements of a world that change or fade. Within her landscapes, the attentive eye and ear preserve the subject, fixing it in time and memory, renewing - through compulsive inspection - faith in the unresolved, even - in what Elizabeth Bishop called 'self-forgetful' attention - at the poet's own expense.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Oxford Poets
• Release date: Apr 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781906188283

Kate Miller

Kate Miller is a writer, editor and creative writing teacher. Following a career in journalism, she gained an MA in playwriting from Essex University and co-founded Pins & Feathers Productions with Richard Syms. As well as the three plays in this collection, she has written First Light - a contemporary Passion Play (2015) and Plenty of Punch (2016) for Pins & Feathers. Her other plays include: The Noose of Light, about Edward Fitzgerald, the 19th century poet, produced by WriteOn, performed at the ADC Theatre Cambridge; Circlemakers, a short radio play, broadcast on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, produced by Menagerie Theatre, Cambridge; Another Fine Mess, produced at the Queen Mother Theatre, Hitchin, Herts; and Shipton Blank, one of five winners in Equity / Writers' Guild / Directors' Guild competition, produced at Riverside Studios, London.