Keep Walking, Rhona Beech by Kate Tough

A warm and ferociously witty story of the s*** life throws at us and how we survive it. Truth rings from every page of this assured and engrossing debut.”
Zoe Strachan

First edition has five stars on Amazon.Buy Here.

Rated five stars by seasoned reviewers on Netgalley.co.uk

Tilt-Shift by Kate Tough

“Kate Tough is a poet who looks down the wrong end of the telescope and finds poetry, insight and above all humour in all kinds of unexpected places.”
Mandy Haggith

Pamphlet of found and experimental poetry, from Tapsalteerie.

Kissing Lying Down by Kate Tough

“Outstanding. Great humour, wonderful observations and delivers a powerful kick.”
Helen Sedgwick

Available on Kindle →

About Kate Tough

Kate’s novel, Keep Walking, Rhona Beech (Abacus) came out in 2019. The novel’s first edition, Head for the Edge, Keep Walking (Cargo) had five stars on Amazon since 2014. Her short stories are collected in, Kissing Lying Down (Picón, 2022), and first appeared in journals such as, The Brooklyn Review, The Texas Review and Broadkill.

Her poem was included in the shortlist of an established UK poetry prize in 2022 (under a pen name), and Kate’s piece, ‘People Made Glasgow’, was selected as a Best Scottish Poem 2016 and her poetry pamphlet, tilt-shift, was Runner Up in the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award, 2017, and mentioned in the Times Literary Supplement’s notable pamphlets, 2017. She was an invited poet in The Edwin Morgan Trust’s International Translation Workshop, in 2019.

Kate is a prose editor with Action, Spectacle arts magazine. She’s the co-ordinator of the Society of Authors’ local group for Spain and also sits on the committee of the PD James Memorial Fund at the SoA. She’s received three Creative Scotland funding awards for fiction and poetry, and been selected for literature residencies at Cove Park, Vermont Studio Center, Outlandia and Moniack Mhor. She’s a children’s literacy volunteer and chairs festival events.

“Exciting new voice in Scottish literature. Keep an eye out for this one.” Kevin MacNeil

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“…the breadth of source material used to mine these process poems is unexpected, funny and surprisingly political… Tough forces the reader to participate, rather than just read.”

nick-e melville on tilt-shift

“A fantastic read. Hooked from the first page. Cannot recommend highly enough.”

Head for the Edge, Keep Walking review on amazon.co.uk