The Starbeck Orion Issue #1 12 of 25

A Feast of Words and Image

Gaynor Kane

Gaynor Kane (nee Carson)

fell into writing accidentally. At forty, instead of buying a mid-life crisis sports car, she started a degree with the Open University. She finished her BA (Hons) in Humanities with Literature in 2016 with a module on creative writing. Since then, she has been widely published in journals and anthologies and listed, placed, and won, several poetry competitions. She is vice-chair of Holywood Writer’s Group and a member of Women Aloud NI. Gaynor also volunteers for EastSide Arts during their summer festival and also during the CS Lewis Festival.

Gaynor’s micro-pamphlet 'Circling the Sun', about the early aviatrixes, was published in 2018. Her pamphlet 'Memory Forest', about burial rituals and last wishes, was published in 2019. Gaynor's debut full poetry collection, 'Venus in pink marble', is published in 2020. These books are all published by Hedgehog Poetry Press.