Skeleton Architecture

Back in June 2017 I had a  villanelle  (the poem form, not the Killing Eve character) published in The Interpreter's House #65. I loved The Interpreter's House. Back then they published these beautiful little journals with gorgeous graphics, lovely formatting, and great poems, so I was really interested in 2018 when all changed in the House. The people, the website, the logo, even that beautiful format. The Interpreter's House is now edited by Georgi Gill, assisted by  Andrew Wells  and it comes out three times a year as a freely accessible online magazine. You'll find it  here . It is still beautiful, it still boasts gorgeous graphics, lovely formatting, and great poems, and now it's easier to access. As well as editing The Interpreter's House, Georgi Gill is a PhD researcher at the University of Edinburgh, exploring poetry in dialogues about multiple sclerosis. Her chief areas of interest, according to  her website  are "the work of Ciaran Cars...

I've mentioned Picaroon Poetry before on this blog. It's a web based poetry magazine that I really love, and I've been really happy to have had a couple of my poems published in it. Picaroon Poetry is run by Kate Garrett, who I am delighted to say has agreed to be my very first interviewee on Skeleton Architecture. I'm planning to do this as hopefully a regular thing, and if it's as easy to work with everyone else I'd like to interview as it has been to work with Kate that will work out beautifully! Kate has a new poetry collection out now, The saint of milk and flames is published by Rhythm & Bones Press, and you can get print and ebook versions of it here , alternatively, you can get a signed copy from Kate for £10 (or £15 international), which includes postage, just go to her Paypal, here . Let's get on with the interview.... Many thanks to Kate Garrett, for agreeing to be my first interviewee.  Kate, I first came across you as the editor...