Daleswoman Shepherdess and Pilgrims

<p><strong>Kate Rhodes</strong>' poetry reflects her upbringing travels and lifelong fascination with light. Her early verse shaped by years teaching in Central Africa (1960-1964) captures landscapes and daily life with precision and honesty the fierce sun both subject and metaphor. Later her fascination with glass - clear coloured stained - inspired poems rooted in Bolton Priory and York Minster where she worked as a guide. In pieces such as The Glazier's Night-Prayer she blends wit reverence and vision. Living on a Yorkshire farm her work turned earthward engaging vividly with weather birds and soil yet always reaching toward the spiritual. Across these phases Rhodes' poetry grows freer more candid and unified by her deep sensitivity to light</p>