Scribbling

Katie Hall's poems are of the rare kind that pierce right into your soul leaving a tingling feeling under your skin matched only by the speechless silence enveloping the roaring storms in your mind. In other words: They touch you. Not as soapy pathos - on contrary they touch your deepest poorly-lit spots because they are so real and relevant. No matter if you have lived situations similar to what the poems get into you feel that you are right there right in it. You empathise not with 'the author' or 'a narrator' ...but with yourself. What makes Katie Hall's poetry lie so close to our own struggles and doubts are their way of spinning around the swirl formed by the eternal dilemma between needing and resisting between shame and desire. Ultimately between honesty and pretence. To be read one by one reflected upon and then re-read. If you are up to it. 'Cause you will discover sides of yourself that you had forgotten about or stowed away. Now with Katie Hall it is time to find it back. -Bjørn Clasen-