Reviews:

A magnificent body of work which sweeps with all the assured grace of a skater skating backwards and pulling the reader by their hands forwards through longing, seduction, mothering, mourning — words that blaze with intelligence, wisdom and hope. These brave, raw poems will steal your heart.

Nancy Campbell
(The Library of Ice, Scribner)

Kaddy Benyon’s Robbergirls reveals how story lives inside us: how it expands the borders of the self even as it’s made supple by our (re)imagining. Always attentive to an embodied engagement with the natural world, Benyon renders forests and fells, as well as the “white silence” and “winterlight” of northern landscapes with lush and potent imagery.

Sheri Benning
(Field Requiem, Carcanet)

 

A windswept spell of a collection, full of lyrical magic.

Jen Campbell
(The Sister Who Ate Her Brothers: And Other Gruesome Tales, Thames & Hudson)

 

Robbergirls takes us to the woods, to the snow lands, into the corners of the self where the oldest of stories live. These poems both weep and they sing in their quest for wholeness; in their honest longing to be kissed warm. Kaddy Benyon’s language is sensual, earthy, brim-full with magic in poems that embody vulnerability and surging potential.

Helen Ivory
(Waiting for Bluebeard, Bloodaxe)

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First Research Trip to Finland (2013)

In October 2013, I was able to use some of my Arts Council funding to arrange a research trip to Finland to observe reindeer herders at work on the edge of the Arctic Circle. I was lucky enough to arrive just as the first snows were falling.

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The Snow Queen Retold (2012)

During my residency at The Polar Museum, I was fortunate to get he opportunity to collaborate with textile designer, Lindsey Holmes who made costumes in response to some of my poems for the text and textile exhibition The Snow Queen Retold.

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