About the Author

Kate Foley is a widely published, prize-winning poet and former president of Suffolk Poetry Society. She has read in many UK and European locations. Her first collection, Soft Engineering was short listed for best first collection at Aldeburgh.

Her working life has ranged from delivering babies to conserving delicate archaeological material. She became Head of English Heritage’s scientific and technical research laboratories. Although she has always written poetry it wasn’t until she gave up the day job that she began to publish more widely.

She now lives with her wife, between Amsterdam and Suffolk, where she performs, writes, edits, leads workshops and whenever possible works with artists in other disciplines.

Reviews

"The poems in A Gift of Rivers start in the commonplace, but apply a forensic eye to explore an idea with as much curiosity and care as a historian or archaeologist would give to an artefact. This, combined with an understanding of craft and narrative, makes the poems satisfying.There's a tenderness here that anyone can relate to. It explores the mundanity in love that's gone beyond the heady days of romance and endured."- Emma Lee in London Grip (http: //londongrip.co.uk/2018/05/london-grip-poetry-review-foley-2/) "Here there is wit, human sentimentality as the butt of a joke--setting up an expectation of irony, then knocking it down with a self-aware admission of one's helpless submission to the pleasure of convention. The poem sounds like a witty friend being vulnerable in the way that self-aware people are: not just letting it all out, but doing so hesitantly, and with qualifications. For those moments in the book, I found it worth reading. "- Raffi Kiureghian, in The Cardiff Review (https: //www.cardiffreview.com/single-post/2018/05/24/The-Gift-of-Rivers-by-Kate-Foley) "A new collection of poems about finding love in advancing years and the upheaval of moving country in fulfilment of that love." - The Poetry Book Society (https: //www.poetrybooks.co.uk/products/a-gift-of-rivers-by-kate-foley)