Kathryn Pentecost
Kathryn Pentecost (aka KP van der Poel)
Kathryn is best known as a playwright/ producer, arts critic, artist and scholar. From 2015 until 2020, she was Artistic Director of Sealand Theatre Inc. She has been writing poetry for many years, and in 2018 produced Metamorphosis – a poetry event at Yankalilla Library, showcasing the work of three female poets. In the late 1980s, she was part of the Writers Aloft collective in Sydney.
Kathryn’s engagement with _this breath is not mine to keep arises out of a need to express some of the darker, more challenging aspects of her psychological engagement with the world – aspects that may resonate with viewers/readers as they struggle with the conditions of neo-conservative capitalism, environmental degradation, the tense and constraining aspects of life under Covid-19, and the stagnant and/or oppressive political status quo here and elsewhere.
Her first solo anthology of poetry is called Metamorphosis.
The hard cover of Metamorphosis was published in 2021; a softcover in 2023.
KP van der Poel is a pseudonym that connects back to her maternal ancestors whom she has written about in her PhD thesis. Read more at Kathryn Pentecost website
Find her poetry for _this breath here (video edited by Sam Herzog, using copyright-free stock footage sourced from pexels.com. All rights reserved Kathryn Pentecost 2020.):
