About
Kathryn Daszkiewicz spent her childhood on the north-east coast and now lives in Lincolnshire.
She has five collections, four with Shoestring Press:
- Cold Harbour
- A Book of Follies
- Taking Flight
- In The Dangerous Cloakroom
Her new collection Widdershins is published by Bowstring Poetry.
Kathryn’s work has been published in many literary magazines, including The Rialto, Mslexia, Orbis, High Window, The Bow-Wow Shop and New Walk.
Kathryn was profiled as one of Lincolnshire's Living Poets by The Lincolnite. She is also a Featured Poet in the Special Collection of the Lincoln University Archive.
She is listed online at Poetry International and Poetry Pf.
News
Widdershins
Kathryn's newest collection Widdershins was published in July 2026 by Bowstring Poetry. To purchase a copy, please contact Kathryn directly using the email address below.
Along with other Bowstring poets, Kathryn will be reading at the Oxford Poetry Circle later in the autumn to launch their new collections.
As a preview, you can watch Kathryn reading her poem 'Adrift' in this Facebook reel.
Murmuration : Reed Diffuser Set
Kathryn's poem 'Murmuration' has been selected by Urban Ganges to feature on one of their Poetry Reed Diffusers.
The Murmuration Sandalwood Reed Diffuser pairs Kathryn's evocative poetry with a luxurious Mysore sandalwood fragrance, creating a piece that is both aromatic and artful.
Books
Poems
Poetry Collections
Cold Harbour
- Harm and the Man
- The Greenwood Speaks: Twelve Trees of Ogham - Hazel
- The Greenwood Speaks: Twelve Trees of Ogham - Rowan
A Book of Follies
- The Secret Life of Houses
- The Book of Follies
Taking Flight
- Paleontology - I. Blue Lias
- Paleontology - III. Xenoliths
- Paleontology - VI. Ammonites
In The Dangerous Cloakroom
- Wedding Day
- The Pond
Other Publications
Reviews
Kathryn Daszkiewicz is a poet of understatement and almost scalpel-like precision. Her poems have the impact of a moment of silence in a grand symphony, the hint of a memory or an idea stirring unreachably at the back of the mind.
Neil Fulwood
Everybody's Reviewing
The awareness, indeed constant presence, of the natural world in this collection manifests as a palette of bright colours, but the dark ground on which they are enamelled is what gives it depth and heft.
Sheenagh Pugh
LiveJournal
Daszkiewicz's skill with metaphoric deatail is equally pronounced in the many poems in the collection "A Book of Follies" which begin in engagements with the natural world - walking rural places or urban borders... A poet with a heightened sense of the world of flora and fauna...
Tony Roberts
Stand Magazine
As we read her poems we squint and blink through smoke to discern the edges, to tell the cat from the air, woman from hotel, deception from intent – to tell a folly from what a folly pretends to be. Daszkiewicz’s collection does not merely suggest purpose and depth. It is purpose, the cutting precision of her words betraying interiors far more alive than we first expected.
Jei Degenhardt
PN Review
[Daskiewicz] has the confidence to stand back from the personal and write about the natural world with a concentration and attention that allows the folly-linked poems to inhabit a wider context.
D. A. Prince
London Grip
Contact
Kathryn is available for readings or workshops. Please enquire via email at kathryn@cloakroom.me.uk.