After the Rites and Sandwiches: Poems

About Kathy Pimlott

Pimlotts collection the small manoeuvres was published by Verve Poetry Press in 2022 and she has two pamphlets with the Emma Press: Elastic Glue (2019) and Goose Fair Night (2016). She has been published widely in magazines online and anthologies.Her poems have been longlisted shortlisted and placed in competitions including Magmas Editors Prize (2019); the Poetry Archives WordView 2020 Collection; the National Poetry Prize (2023) the Rialto Nature and Place Prize (2023) and the Buzzwords Competition (2023). She leads workshops in-person and online.Pimlott was born and raised in Nottingham but has spent her adult life in London the last 45+ years in Covent Garden specifically Seven Dials home of the broadsheet and the ballad. She has been a social worker and community activist and worked on a political and financial risk journal in arts television and artist development. She currently earns her living as the administrator of a charitable trust which undertakes community-led public realm projects.