K Patrick

Jun 18, 2024 | theparisreview.org | K Patrick

Some natural flowers had been allowed to bloom across the field. Sunflowers, the big ones, he couldn’t remember the name,  Giganteus blah blah. Buttercups, he at least knew those. A pinkish type. Fine petals drawn upward like bunched fingertips. Bees bounced from one to the next. The field was bright green. Unnaturally so, as if it had been dyed, which he supposed it might have been. The rest of the flowers were fakes.

May 13, 2024 | smh.com.au | K Patrick |Winnie Dunn |Jake Adelstein |Mirandi Riwoe

Fast-forward to 2022, when I stumbled upon an old, dusty house filled with junk in a small seaside town near Kyoto. It had eight rooms, a warehouse, and it was a steal. I asked my partner, Jessy Nakamura, who loves the beach and can surf, whether we should buy it. "Hell, yes," she said. "It'll be paradise during Tokyo's horrible summers and a place for you to have a fresh start, away from all those crime scenes." She was right.

May 13, 2024 | theage.com.au | K Patrick |Winnie Dunn |Jake Adelstein |Mirandi Riwoe

, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Save articles for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. From a half-demon dog and the rules of takeaway to an island revelation and a burglar who got more than he bargained for, we asked four writers to respond to the theme of this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival, Take Me Away. A bark from both endsBy K PatrickOnce a bitch at the yard had puppies and my jockey father brought one home.

Feb 7, 2024 | booksfromscotland.com | K Patrick

By (author) K Patrick An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta‘s Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love. An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, systems, in K Patrick’s ground-breaking debut book of poems.

Jan 11, 2024 | uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |K Patrick

(Author) FORMAT Paperback£12.99£12.34(English) An extraordinary and playful debut collection by one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, exploring the joy and fluidity of queer love. An interrogation of the erotic and romantic becomes refracted, as though through a prism, towards beings, lovers, states, objects, landscapes, systems, in K Patrick's ground-breaking debut book of poems.