Skeleton Architecture

Happy Yorkshire Day!  It's a weird kind of Yorkshire day with lockdown closing down my home town of Ilkley where we were supposed to be this weekend. I had hoped for afternoon tea at the White House on the moor, instead I'll be visiting the new market in my new home town in Scotland. This time last year I was on holiday in Scarborough (pictured) with my family, and my poem, My First Kiss, had just come out on the rather marvellous The Poetry Village website. You can see that here . For a while I'd been trying to get a publisher interested in a small collection of my poems, with no luck. When I saw that Maytree Press , the independent publisher associated with The Poetry Village, were looking for small collections I decided I'd send them something, but instead of sending them poems from the collection I'd brought together myself, I sent them poems that were connected with Yorkshire.  To be honest, I didn't expect much to happen. I'd been rejected many times, ...

First Kiss is available now! You can buy it from me - just click the button below to buy your copy, which I'm happy to sign.    Want it signed? Alternatively, you can buy it in the Maytree Press shop , along with other books like the award winning The Collective Nouns for Birds by Amanda Huggins. Here's what people have been saying about it so far: "terribly beautiful, and also terribly intriguing..." - Dave  "Your book is fantastic, love all of them, well done" - Wendy If you missed the live launch on Instagram you can still find it on IGTV here . 

My first poetry collection comes out on 22nd May 2020, and is now available to pre-order. I was hoping to do all sorts of events, and plan to, once we can do that kind of thing again, but for now I'm going to be doing a live launch on Insta at 5.30pm on Friday 22nd. You'll find me here . It's a coming of age chapbook, beautifully put together by Maytree Press, with gorgeous cover art from Annie Ovenden. Here's what my publisher had to say: First Kiss is a remarkable debut collection from Yorkshire born writer Cara L McKee,  And here's a little taster: I thought that my first kiss was required for the rich boy tearing petals from gardenias in October, throwing them from the old bridge into the Wharfe, wailing that the blooms would get more kisses from the water than he would get from me. If you would like to get a copy, I can send you a signed one - just let me know in the note to seller.   You'll find the button to buy a copy in the side bar on...

So this is happening!!!!! Due out in May, from Maytree Press, my first poetry collection! Maytree Press have written a lovely piece about it, so go check that out. Maytree Press post here .