Kathryn Gray
@kathryngray.bsky.social
Poet. Film fanatic. Editor @badlilies.bsky.social. Hollywood or Home, a Sunday Times Poetry Book of the Year, out now: https://www.serenbooks.com/book/hollywood-or-home/ and https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hollywood-Home-Kathryn-Gray/dp/1781727120
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We have now reached 2,500 unique visitors for our latest issue! Read it here: badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Issue twenty-two — Bad Lilies
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November 21, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We have now reached 2,500 unique visitors for our latest issue! Read it here: badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
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OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
Issue twenty-two — Bad Lilies
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October 31, 2025 at 12:01 PM
OUT NOW. Issue Twenty-Two: 'Ghost Ship'. badlilies.uk/issue-twenty-two
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Grateful to @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social for including my narrative poem "Dissent at the Temple of Gemini" in the new issue of Bad Lilies. Enjoy, and please do yourself the favor of reading the full issue!
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Austin Allen — Bad Lilies
A poem by Austin Allen
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October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Grateful to @kathryngray.bsky.social and @andrewjamesneilson.bsky.social for including my narrative poem "Dissent at the Temple of Gemini" in the new issue of Bad Lilies. Enjoy, and please do yourself the favor of reading the full issue!
www.badlilies.uk/austin-allen-2
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We’ve a beautiful new @badlilies.bsky.social landing on Halloween! Expect poems that will stay with you at this time of the thin veil between worlds.
Proofs to contributors are being prepared...our cracking new issue is out for Halloween in a week's time 👀👻⚓️ badlilies.uk
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We’ve a beautiful new @badlilies.bsky.social landing on Halloween! Expect poems that will stay with you at this time of the thin veil between worlds.
We’ve a beautiful new @badlilies.bsky.social landing on Halloween! Expect poems that will stay with you at this time of the thin veil between worlds.
Proofs to contributors are being prepared...our cracking new issue is out for Halloween in a week's time 👀👻⚓️ badlilies.uk
October 25, 2025 at 8:06 AM
We’ve a beautiful new @badlilies.bsky.social landing on Halloween! Expect poems that will stay with you at this time of the thin veil between worlds.
Going on a Stevie Smith pilgrimage tomorrow. 🌸
October 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Going on a Stevie Smith pilgrimage tomorrow. 🌸
Not been well all week. Feeling a bit better. But ailing, I never noted that Hollywood or Home turned the grand old age of two a few days ago. Thank you to everyone who bought her and who said nice things. I appreciate you hugely, more than you will know (and so does Norma Desmond!).
October 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Not been well all week. Feeling a bit better. But ailing, I never noted that Hollywood or Home turned the grand old age of two a few days ago. Thank you to everyone who bought her and who said nice things. I appreciate you hugely, more than you will know (and so does Norma Desmond!).
Sunday evening. A small poem from Hollywood or Home about art, lost love, and reversal of fortune. Guest stars the marvellous Alvin Pleasant Carter, a patriarch of the legendary Carter Family, who pioneered country music. I’ve never performed it at readings. Must fix that.
September 21, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Sunday evening. A small poem from Hollywood or Home about art, lost love, and reversal of fortune. Guest stars the marvellous Alvin Pleasant Carter, a patriarch of the legendary Carter Family, who pioneered country music. I’ve never performed it at readings. Must fix that.
Sunday night poem from Hollywood or Home. E.T./The Goonies meets mortality. And, oddly, probably the nearest I’ll ever come to an ecopoem, as it dawns on me now.
September 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Sunday night poem from Hollywood or Home. E.T./The Goonies meets mortality. And, oddly, probably the nearest I’ll ever come to an ecopoem, as it dawns on me now.
One of my all-time favourite tracks from the Boss. Tunnel of Love is one banging and beautiful album all round.
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Bruce Springsteen - Tougher Than the Rest (Official Video)
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September 6, 2025 at 10:28 AM
One of my all-time favourite tracks from the Boss. Tunnel of Love is one banging and beautiful album all round.
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Unsure what it says about modern life, but the first thing on a social feed of mine this morning was a clip of the Brookside moment when Barry Grant finds his mum, Sheila, in bed with Billy Corkhill. “It’s the most natural thing in the world,” she claims. Brookie is not the Chekhov I remember.
August 31, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Unsure what it says about modern life, but the first thing on a social feed of mine this morning was a clip of the Brookside moment when Barry Grant finds his mum, Sheila, in bed with Billy Corkhill. “It’s the most natural thing in the world,” she claims. Brookie is not the Chekhov I remember.
Old photos. My grandmother comforting her little brother, my great uncle Danny, after the Commonwealth Games 1958 cycling road race. He came 8th—pretty darn great. Both of them gone to light now. Amazing people. ❤️
August 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Old photos. My grandmother comforting her little brother, my great uncle Danny, after the Commonwealth Games 1958 cycling road race. He came 8th—pretty darn great. Both of them gone to light now. Amazing people. ❤️
My Sharona - Reality Bites (3/10) Movie CLIP (1994) HD
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August 30, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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August 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Annual rewatch of The Firm—a v v good Tom Cruise movie. So many biggies in the cast! Among them—and most prominently—Gene Hackman, who takes his role so seriously that he elevates the whole. Pollack directed, perhaps why so many stars wanted in, despite their slight parts.
August 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Annual rewatch of The Firm—a v v good Tom Cruise movie. So many biggies in the cast! Among them—and most prominently—Gene Hackman, who takes his role so seriously that he elevates the whole. Pollack directed, perhaps why so many stars wanted in, despite their slight parts.
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Marvin Gaye’s often-incendiary album, Let’s Get It On, was released today in 1973 on Tamla. The lp was controversial in its time but is today seen as groundbreaking – & doubtless is one of the most important albums of the 1970s. It’s a deep work of art – with a revelatory Gaye going for broke.
August 28, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Marvin Gaye’s often-incendiary album, Let’s Get It On, was released today in 1973 on Tamla. The lp was controversial in its time but is today seen as groundbreaking – & doubtless is one of the most important albums of the 1970s. It’s a deep work of art – with a revelatory Gaye going for broke.
It’s almost two years from the birth of Hollywood or Home, my second collection—the work I’m proudest of. Proud because of the sense of risk, the sense of coming from a *true* place, for whatever that can mean. Now, it’s to the new poems, with a somewhat heavy heart. Onwards. No Surrender Dorothy. 🌸
August 28, 2025 at 8:48 AM
It’s almost two years from the birth of Hollywood or Home, my second collection—the work I’m proudest of. Proud because of the sense of risk, the sense of coming from a *true* place, for whatever that can mean. Now, it’s to the new poems, with a somewhat heavy heart. Onwards. No Surrender Dorothy. 🌸
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Last year marked 20 years since beloved poet, teacher, and friend to so many, Michael Donaghy, left us. His widow, Maddy Paxman, created a site for his students of yore to share their memories of Mikey’s unique, transformative, lasting power. Here’s mine. michaeldonaghywordshop.com/2024/05/29/k...
Kathryn Gray – Escape Room: The Writer by Richard Wilbur
I met Michael Donaghy in the early autumn of 1998. I had been in London for a year by that point. I had come to the capital with impossibly large hope – and far too much arrogance. The reality was …
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August 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Last year marked 20 years since beloved poet, teacher, and friend to so many, Michael Donaghy, left us. His widow, Maddy Paxman, created a site for his students of yore to share their memories of Mikey’s unique, transformative, lasting power. Here’s mine. michaeldonaghywordshop.com/2024/05/29/k...
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August 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
A reminder that our @badlilies.bsky.social submissions window closes this Sunday! If you’re thinking of submitting some beautiful blooms, you can find our submission FAQ here: www.badlilies.uk/submit
Last year marked 20 years since beloved poet, teacher, and friend to so many, Michael Donaghy, left us. His widow, Maddy Paxman, created a site for his students of yore to share their memories of Mikey’s unique, transformative, lasting power. Here’s mine. michaeldonaghywordshop.com/2024/05/29/k...
Kathryn Gray – Escape Room: The Writer by Richard Wilbur
I met Michael Donaghy in the early autumn of 1998. I had been in London for a year by that point. I had come to the capital with impossibly large hope – and far too much arrogance. The reality was …
michaeldonaghywordshop.com
August 22, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Last year marked 20 years since beloved poet, teacher, and friend to so many, Michael Donaghy, left us. His widow, Maddy Paxman, created a site for his students of yore to share their memories of Mikey’s unique, transformative, lasting power. Here’s mine. michaeldonaghywordshop.com/2024/05/29/k...
I had the most heavenly swim today. I don’t swim nearly enough. When I was at school, I was like a little, mousy-haired fish. Yes, I was a wonderful, fast and bold swimmer. Whenever I swim, I go to the mindful place—zoned-out, so natural and free. The Pisces in me needs more of this.
August 17, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I had the most heavenly swim today. I don’t swim nearly enough. When I was at school, I was like a little, mousy-haired fish. Yes, I was a wonderful, fast and bold swimmer. Whenever I swim, I go to the mindful place—zoned-out, so natural and free. The Pisces in me needs more of this.
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Meryl Streep’s filmography has seen me through the bad times and the good. Here’s a poem from Hollywood or Home, featuring some of my favourite performances.
August 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Meryl Streep’s filmography has seen me through the bad times and the good. Here’s a poem from Hollywood or Home, featuring some of my favourite performances.
Meryl Streep’s filmography has seen me through the bad times and the good. Here’s a poem from Hollywood or Home, featuring some of my favourite performances.
August 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Meryl Streep’s filmography has seen me through the bad times and the good. Here’s a poem from Hollywood or Home, featuring some of my favourite performances.
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Massively looking forward to reading at Chener Books on 4 September with two brilliant poets I hugely admire, Sarah Corbett and Tamar Yoseloff, to celebrate the launch of Sarah’s sixth collection of poetry, The Ishtar Gate. It’ll be a wonderful birthday party! Do join us for poetry and joy. ❤️
September Poetry at Chener Books
Join us for readings from Sarah Corbett, Kathryn Gray and Tamar Yoseloff
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August 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Massively looking forward to reading at Chener Books on 4 September with two brilliant poets I hugely admire, Sarah Corbett and Tamar Yoseloff, to celebrate the launch of Sarah’s sixth collection of poetry, The Ishtar Gate. It’ll be a wonderful birthday party! Do join us for poetry and joy. ❤️
Endlessly in love with Dorothea Tanning. Endlessly in love with her Self-Portrait (1944).
August 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Endlessly in love with Dorothea Tanning. Endlessly in love with her Self-Portrait (1944).