Pretenders by Kate Potts Aviva Dautch half-satirical

half-satirical

Longley has been exploring Lochalsh in the Western Highlands where his daughter the painter Sarah Longley now lives with her family

so that each image is stark and true’

In Love and Revolution (Shearsman Books)

Pretenders by Kate Potts Aviva Dautch half-satiricalIn Pretenders, her third book of poetry, Kate Potts asks: what is it like, as a daily, lived experience, to feel like a fraud or a fake? And what can the imposter phenomenon' a sense that our true abilities and achievements, and other core aspects of our identities, are unreal, undeserved or mistakenly bestowed tell us about who we are and how we relate to one another? Through lively and vivid poetic monologues drawn from original interview material,