{"product_id":"books-by-cathi-rae","title":"Books by Cathi Rae","description":"\u003cp\u003eCathi Rae is a poet and spoken word artist, somewhat accidentally living in the East Midlands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOutside of poetry she is an older model, a sustainable stylist and a campaigner challenging the invisibility of older women. You can find her on Instagram @CathiRae\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe teaches creative writing for adults and is a freelance educator and workshop facilitator. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Leicester and has just completed a practice-led PhD in Poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"4br3hz-jg5hn2-4h8prm-8e8qgg\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003eWriting Elegies for Dead Men I Didn't Meet\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCathi Rae's Writing Elegies for Dead Men I Didn't Meet explores the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003epainful but important subject of male suicide in a series of eloquent and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003esensitive poems each about a different real case. Drawing only on\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003einformation publicly available on social media, these are poems of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003erespectful distance as well as of imaginative sympathy; and they bear\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003emoving testimony not only to the distinctive experience of each\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecommemorated individual but also to the tragically powerful social forces\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethat lead men to suffer in silence rather than share their feelings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Nick Everete)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"7kfhbd-7bo1o6-wllkoc-kpls64\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003eYour Cleaner Hates You: And Other Poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" class=\"celwidget\" data-feature-name=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-type=\"widget\" data-csa-c-content-id=\"bookDescription\" data-csa-c-slot-id=\"bookDescription_feature_div\" data-csa-c-asin=\"\" data-csa-c-is-in-initial-active-row=\"false\" data-csa-c-id=\"p41c12-yfxysd-kj6zsu-h8y12x\" data-cel-widget=\"bookDescription_feature_div\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJOELLE TAYLOR\u003cbr\u003e“Ruling with a rod of irony, Cathi Rae is a contemporary spoken word icon”.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLYDIA TOWSEY\u003cbr\u003e“Cathi Rae’s is a rare talent. She writes with a deft touch and elegant slight of mercurial hand to balance the personal and public, lyrical and political, funny and heart-breaking narrative, open and many shades of in between. Her poems are detailed, clear eyed, beautiful and necessary. 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