Television by Kate Middleton

Television by Kate MiddletonA poetry collection which is part criticism, part autobiography, and always acute in its recollection of the emotions inspired by television drama. In her new collection Television, award winning poet Kate Middleton considers the emotional impact that television programs had on her formative years from childhood cartoons Astro Boy and Roadrunner to series like Pretty Little Liars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twin Peaks and Beverly Hills 90210. These

This was the Wild South

and finally

they convey their immense love for their children and the happiness they have brought into their lives

and almost all of them were by people they knew

and bars and fences are no match for the one and only Wolf Girl

of criticism and judgement from others

Focusing on five major friend types (the Work Friend

Unsparing in its interrogation of colonial impulse

Erlking imprisons Serilda in his castle and sets her the impossible task of spinning straw into gold

Austin Stapleton knew Willshire

I won't write about that

Praise for Brene Brown